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Originally posted by pinkgoth2
And greed - aren't we all guilty of it? You want to see a tomorrow, don't you? You want to live, and you want to be happy. Heck, just to be a little twisted: you want society to get better.
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I accept and agree with your reasoning for why Hate is a good thing, but I don't see how the fact that everybody is Greedy makes Greed a good thing...
Personally, I think that the solution lies in Education. Yes, Nature and Nurture both have a part to play in the deveopment of Human Nature, but the fact that one facet of that makes us Selfish and Intolerant does not mean that we should back that up with the other... In our society, people learn to be selfish, as well as having it programmed. I'm not talking about education in Schools, but about the general influence of the Consumer Society. I'm not as naive as to blame Capitalism for all of the world's problems, but it is definately a contributer to many of them...
I believe that humans are heading down one side of a U. Things are going to get considerably worse over the next few decades, but then after that, people will realise how shit the world is, and will turn things around. Of course, once things have become nice, people will become complacent, and things will slide down again, so it's a cycle. But the Earth has shown remarkable resilience before, as has the Human Race. It will cope, and so will we.
Meh, I rambled a bit there, but I think my points got across...
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Originally posted by morphius
If the world was perfect there would be no need for heaven, so a utopia is improbable
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I can't even see where you're trying to come from with that one... Situation A makes Location B obsolete, therefore A is unlikely? Could you please elaborate, as I can't see the slightest bit of logic behind it...