"If you could have one wish granted to you, what would that wish be for?"
"Peace on Earth"
This is a common response from most competitors in a contest, or pageant, but what exactly is "Peace on Earth"?
Obviously it would be humanity living in unity, without the urge to rule over, and harm others for your own advantage or profit, like we see in todays world. The real question is, Why can't we live in peace? Well, we could, though it would be a very long and difficult process to even attempt, but many of todays aspects of life would have to be removed, or altered to achieve anything close to peace on Earth. Humanity for its recorded entirety, in my opinion has been setting itself up for chaos amongst each other, Starting with my first reason why peace on Earth can not be achieved.
Reason 1 is Religion. I have nothing against any religion or belief, but I will say, it alone contributes to alot of the hatred humans have towards each other. It's a given fact, its rather simple, "I don't believe in your God, fuck you, go die". We even have wars over it. Believe in what you want, but don't force it upon others or belittle them for not having the same beliefs, or non-beliefs. Its simple, but so many people attack each other everyday over their, religious or spiritual views. This is not peaceful.
Reason 2 is Race. The fact that we even have different "races" to label ourselves as is the start of the problem. We are all a part of the exact same race, Which is the human race. Every thing beyond that is just a "sub-race" that provides no real benefit other than segregating ourselves from people no different than us. Sure there are cultural differences, but that may as well play into the religion aspect of it. Or the conditioning that your beliefs are more important than others. Point being is that as long as we identify and market ourselves based on "race" (skin color) we will never obtain world peace. You are HUMAN. Nothing more, nothing less.
Reason 3 is Government. This should be self explanatory, but ill give you a quick thought. You cant have peace and also have rulers. You have to pick one. Claiming authority over other humans is not peaceful, its the opposite. No human should be able to force another to abide by their standards. Instead we should all be our own leaders and do what makes you happy, as long as you are doing so in a manner that doesn't bring harm to your fellow humans. AKA Anarchy. Until humans realize that being controlled in everything you do by another human is not good, we will all continue to live in a world that we set up to fail.
