Rodri...first off, listing your credentials as some supposedly Evony big cheese means diddly squat, as far as I'm concerned this could have been post one by John Smith.

Have re-read this thread a couple of times and whilst you make some salient points that I do agree with I am left at a complete loss as to what you are trying to get across?

Peace is an ideal that any right-thinking person should hopefully strive for but as one poster pointed out 'the system is broke'. You mentioned often that this is your personal journey and its up to others to do what they must. Well lets say your post inspired one other person to your train of thought, perhaps ten people, a hundred or even a thousand. You are still not going to change mans basic inhumanity to each other. You may give an individual some inner peace and well being but you are not going to change the world stage one iota.

I don't want to get religious but Jesus was really a bench-mark when it comes to talking about being peaceable and applying it in your lives. But the peace he talked about wasn't some self-serving idea for personal betterment, it was linked in to other qualities such as goodness, kindness, long suffering, self-control etc...all things which involved said peace in relation to others. But lets face it even he failed.

It also has to be said (and sorry for the use of a hackneyed argument here) that your freedom to even express such thoughts as you have has been won through blood and far from peaceable means. The price of peace some would say huh?

I appreciate that you shared your thoughts, made a thread that was a little different and thought-provoking but in the end to me just asks a whole lot of questions with answering very little.