[Pecos_Bill]

I, on the other hand, don't think that a significant percentage of women are crazed, naturally promiscuous pushovers. Call me a deluded and uxorious dupe, but there you have it.

Sterilizing a few dudes would be effective as an exemplary lesson to "encourage the others". In the course of my public health nurse work I became so tired of hearing the same old story. Some 20 year old  bum had bought the ugliest 16 year old in town  a damn cheeseburger, impregnated her, and skipped town.

The first step in cutting the birth rate ( and reducing the risk of another war ) is to ensure women have full and equal rights....in everything: procreation. employment, education  ....everything

And if you have to knock a few walking, talking billy goats' heads together, then tough darts for them. Because it beats a replay of Passchendaele.

[alancalverd]

You can't have "equal rights in procreation" because the functions and duties of males and females are different -it's a meaningless slogan. But you can offer women the right and the opportunity not to procreate. My plan is to provide financial encouragement as well.

[Pecos_Bill]

Talk to the hand.

[smart]

If WW1 was a chemical war and WW2 a nuclear war, WW3 will be a biological disaster. Militarization of science already provide the technology for killing billions of people with engineered bioweapons, it's perhaps only a matter of time before a terrorist organization gets access to such weapons.

[Space Flow]

What would be the most likely cause of WW3?

One word "Religion"...

[Ophiolite]

I think only one member has mentioned the underlying cause: human nature. You can't expect a species, accustomed to living in tribes of a hundred or so and being very cautious about their neighbours, to play nice when there are in excess of seven billion and only some of them have i-phones.

[GoC]

Trump becoming president of the U.S.? Just saying.

[Space Flow]

Trump becoming president of the U.S.? Just saying.

I heard a rumour that Trump belongs to the Flat-Earth-Society.
If this is true we here in Australia should feel no effect or consequence from him becoming President, as according to the Flat Earthers we should not even exist and if we did, we should just fall off into the void.
They should certainly not be able to even get to us on the underside.

[chris]

Trump becoming president of the U.S.?

Hilariously put, but true!

[alysdexia]

social engineering + computer network breaches + data & fund theft + blockade

[smart]

The failure of capitalism or the rise of economic tyranny leading to artificial crisis, false flag terrorism, and poverty may destabilize the global economy and trigger a world conflict. The investigation and trial of secret societies should end the conflict by arresting dictators who attempted to bring humanity to its knees by subverting sovereign nations into police states. 

A new economy should emerge from the oppression generated by the world conflict were science and technology should be developed to end the techno-economic singularity. Capitalism should no longer be the same in the democratic civilization; A new form of social-democracy based on human experience should arise to create a universal job market were higher education is accessible and dedicated to the promotion of human knowledge.

Scientific research should be more democratic, and promoting human advancements through the reengineering of the Internet, a necessary change for harmonizing social-democratic values into the distribution of peer-driven digital currencies. Poverty and tyranny should be historical artefacts of the ancient world, were the failure of capitalism was necessary for the world to advance.

[alancalverd]

WW3 has been going on since the end of WW2. It's different from its predecessors by being highly asymmetric, delocalised, and involving the USA from Day 1. Another difference is the way that the Western Allies express moral outrage and change sides as soon as their chosen side looks like winning, thus ensuring that the war will go on for ever and Halliburton makes a profit.   

The cause is whatever lie comes to the mind of Halliburton's puppet politicians.

[wolfekeeper]

The thing that will cause WWIII may already have happened: the 2008 banking crisis.

If you think about it, WWII was caused by the effects of the Great Depression. Hitler got into power by promising to sort out the economic chaos that that caused, and we all know how that turned out.

So, now all it would take is some ideologue to get into power somewhere in the world and start an invasion; the economics is set up for people to be unhappy enough to vote them in.

I'm sticking with my answer, but I'm further specifying the ideologue to be Donald Trump getting into power.

[alancalverd]

Who is he going to blame for the banking crisis? American banks, presumably. So is he going to invade America?

I think we can separate Hitler's initial rise to power in the economic shambles, from his later decision to invade Poland on a wave of hysterical nationalism. But there's every possiblity of Trump winning a second term if the banks want him to.

[wolfekeeper]

Who is he going to blame for the banking crisis?

Mexicans, obviously.

[syhprum]

I think that the decision to invade Poland and intensify the persecution of the Jews was prompted to some extent by the withdrawal of American loans. 

[wolfekeeper]

That might or might not have been the immediate trigger, but Hitler's lebensraum far predated that, and involved Germany owning huge amounts of Europe; and without having an insane ideologue in charge it wouldn't even have been an issue.

[JoeBrown]

I suspect a changing climate, most likely the cause of the present world war waged against and through acts of terrorism, in progress, not as yet termed as such.

Although nuclear threats, may present a clear danger to a final end of all human argument, ending any such discussion, a rendering of complete.

Tho if elected, Donald Drumph would likely be the argument to prove American society's blame, for either.

[Creator15]

If there is, I think its cause will include natural resources and livingspace, as that is the thing that cause many great wars to happen in the past and today is being more chased on.

[jeffreyH]

Paranoia will likely be the cause of ww III.