If violence is considered wrong under all circumstances, and that idea of right and wrong becomes the basis for society than you can't defend yourself, or your neighbor, or have police defend you or arrest people. You get a situation where the sociopath takes what he wants, and the intelligent ambitious sociopath makes himself king.
There will always be conflict. People will always have things to disagree about.
To be sure, our court systems (civil, criminal, SC, and the World Court) have a ways to go yet, but I am asking you to look at the trajectory.
I am not that terrific in math, but in Calculus they are always looking at the delta - or the rate of change. If you could plot the rate of change as to how disputes are being settled by means other than the use of violence - you can clearly see the growth of conflict resolution by means other than use of force.
In other words at one time as we emerged from animalhood, all disputes were settled by the use of force. But, as civilizations advanced, there became other means to resolve conflict. From 100 % to some number less than 100%. But the important measure is the rate of change. From that you can see the inevitability of the reduction of if not the total elimination of violence as a means to resolve conflict.
That is what is great about mathematics. Emotion does not play any part in it.
Just do the math. |
