“A Question for the Systems Sciences: Is a Nonkilling Society Possible?” (Chapter)

by Glenn D. Paige, Yong Pil Rhee (ed.)

In Toward New Paradigm of Systems Science, pp. 409-416.
(Seoul: Seoul National University Press)

Summary: Science proceeds by asking questions over time. However we calculate social time, now is appropriate at the end of a murderous era to question whether human beings can stop killing each other. Is a nonkilling society, from local to global, possible? If no, why not? If yes, why?

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