Obiter Dictum - 2: Institutions for World Peace - Marriage

Since long before the League of Nations and United Nations, there has been Marriage. As an institution that was established essentially in order to foster World Peace, it differs from its successors only in terms of its modus operandi. Whereas its successors have always adopted a passive approach, aiming at providing a forum for nations in dispute to resolve their differences peacefully and amicably, and thereby avoiding war, Marriage works on a different philosophy. It brings men and women together to constantly slug it out between themselves, resulting in their having no energies left to wage wars against the rest of the world, leaving the world in peace. It thus seeks to establish permanent world peace by actively fomenting a perpetual state of domestic war, in accordance with its motto, Si vis pacem, para bellum. And towards that end, unlike its successors, it has so far been singularly successful.