Timeline for Developing a society with no military or defense force [closed]
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| Jan 9, 2018 at 11:55 | comment | added | Real Subtle | In the book series Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler, the aliens saw their own race as non-violent because their biological response to a competing (new) race was not to fight and kill them but to "acquire" them - i.e. biologically integrate the other species with their own. However, humans who became victims of this did not see this as non-violent. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 22:53 | comment | added | Mołot | "Country that does not feed its own army son will feed someone's else army" as old saying goes. And mutual understanding and compassion is something you can't cook to feed your children. If there is not enough for everyone there will be a fight. Only animals that in no way fight to feed their young are ones that eat their young when food is short | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 21:47 | history | closed |
L.Dutch♦ sphennings Bellerophon SPavel Aify |
Opinion-based | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 21:42 | answer | added | TimothyAWiseman | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 21:02 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | Also worth noting, there are many martial arts which seek to find peaceful resolutions to all arguments. They have developed many clever approaches which may be useful in your search. They also tend to have clear limits to their approach (at which point they break bones and draw blood), and those limits can serve as an inspiration as well. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 21:00 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I definitely have to agree that this has to be opinion based because the search for such a peace-loving people hasn't borne fruit in a few millennia. However, if you are truly interested in exploring deeper into this question, may I recommend exploring what the term "non-violent" means to you. It seems easy at first, because we typically have an intuitive sense of violent or not, but we don't all agree on where the line is drawn. The "I'm not touching you" game may be a good place to explore where the usefulness of the term "non-violent" reaches its limits. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 20:39 | comment | added | D.J. Klomp | Do you mean a non-violent species among themselves or also to the rest of the world? | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 20:38 | comment | added | AlexP | "A society of peace and cooperation" "with no military or defense force" at what level of development? Recognizably military structures appeared quite late in the development of human civilizations, a little after the development of the first cities; and those military organizations were meant for offense, not defense. Not even ancient Rome, the one and only Rome, had any kind of permanent defensive force until the 4th century BCE or so; before that they assembled and army when needed ("legio" from "lego", I choose, hence "a selection" of men) and disbanded it when the war was over. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 20:34 | answer | added | D.J. Klomp | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 20:25 | answer | added | Isaac | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 19:16 | history | edited | Olga | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | Welcome to Worldbuilding. Utopians are discussing this topic for centuries, and still no agreement has been reached. I don't see how this question can avoid to be opinion based. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 17:49 | history | asked | ZestyBomb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |