[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.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/02/using-the-internet-for-good/219870/
