If we free the slaves, where will we get cotton? Without cotton, how will our children wear cotton coats? Without coats, our children will freeze. You abolitionists want nothing more than to freeze our children.
Or we can just get the cotton some other way.
It is the same with World Peace. Those that can't see it, those that laugh at the very idea, scoff and mock the idea... what have they to hide? What benefits do they know but leave unsaid, in perpetual war among man's kind?
Many still laugh at the idea of world peace, at those victims that plead "can't we just get along", at those dreamers that believe peace on earth can happen.
Peace is not the end of all misery, it is not the end of all conflict. It is not the end of all oppression, it will not stop a romantic triangle from ending in disaster for one to three people. An end of war would not be an end to all exploitation or even all oppression, it would not have to be. The end of war is not utopian. It is nothing but the end of a certain kind of crime and injustice, not between adversaries but among family.
There are no problems war has ever solved that were not solved better elsewise, through progress, learning, and construction.
(an MLW essay)