The Contra Armageddon Theory And Its Postulate

Preamble

The world has become a global village, where technology, increased learning, and access to knowledge have brought to men magnificent lifestyles leading to copious satisfaction and immense tranquility. One of the threats to these wonderful and stupendous lifestyles, life satisfaction, and contentment is war, which can occur frequently because of the insatiable demand for goods, wealth, and assets in the economic world. These generate competitive struggle among men, unpredictable behaviors, and their changeable environments mean that we may visualize intermittent wars occurring and recurring in the developed as well as the developing nations of the world. The former nations have amassed stupendous wealth and weapons of mass destruction such as biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons; these are hypersonic missiles that can travel five times at the speed of sound.

The Contra Armageddon Theory: Assumptions

The contra armageddon theory states that due to the colossal threat which is there in the world that one maniac leader could be mistakenly given the power to use them to destroy firstly, himself and secondly, his nations’ citizens and thirdly, the people of the world, at any point in time, leaders either democratic or dictatorial could be monitored and investigated before their becoming elected to occupy the seat of President. A leader would be constantly followed and monitored while dispensing his collective power as well. These works will be carried out by a group of people or a secret intelligent organization that have been given mandate by the same government. If they at any point in time find this leader to be a danger to his country and its citizens, the contra armageddon theory says that this leader should be eliminated through any means that is appropriate; several methods could be applied such as poisoning, assassination, strangling, buried alive, etc.

The contra armageddon theory is, therefore, geared toward offering and guaranteeing a peaceful world to modern men and the world and its inhabitants in totality who otherwise could fall victims in the presence of the tyranny of one madman or woman.

Postulate

The theory will be developed further, but its premise is based on the postulate that it is far better and logically acceptable for one person to die than for a whole nation being perished because of the misfortune that has been caused by the former. In other words, the theory postulates that if we disallow one threatening individual who possesses a problem to cause a whole nation to perish, then you have not committed unpardonable debauchery, but on the contrary, you have averted a major catastrophe that could have befallen on a nation that lives in peace. This turpitude will not be counted as an offense in the current modern world or the court of law.

Professor Desmond Ayim-Aboagye,

Regent University College of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana

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