After his 13 years of baseless detention at Guantanamo, Shaker Aamer said: "If there is anything that will bring the world to peace, it is to remove injustice," and I believe he has a point, if not THE point.
If the world truly wants to chill and smoke the peace pipe, each man must endeavour to stop the violation of the rights of the next man. We must stop exercising power in an overly exacting and unjust manner. We must be fair in the way we pass judgments, and in our interference between rivals and disputants.
We cannot maintain an environment of peace for the comfort of all, unless we stop affording treatments and considerations based on class and category rather than individual merit. There cannot be harmony in our relations unless we stop intolerance and prejudice, especially religious and racial bigotry.
With all of the above in place, I am not a seer but I don't think a dime will ever be spent on the attainment of world peace. But then that'll be bad business for the military-industrial complexes.
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