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Using The Internet For Good

By The Daily Dish
Feb 17 2008, 5:06 AM ET

[Patrick Appel] Scott Adams has a plan for world peace:

What I’d like to see is a pen pal web site designed to end war. The idea would be to connect citizens in different countries at such a high rate it would be politically impossible for the two countries to start a war.

You might support your government in a war against a country full of people you don’t know. But would you support a war that has a good chance of killing your e-mail friend Phlubanakawahaha and his entire family? There is some theoretical level of citizen-to-citizen contact that makes war between two countries virtually impossible.

It's a shame there aren't more cartoonist think tanks.



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