i think it's that of personal salvation. it makes us lose sight of what is really important: the here and now. great cruelty - as seen in the crusades and today's terrorists - is attributable to that haywire thought.
2006-09-06 13:58:07 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The first hostile thought anyone could ever concieve, and is the most dangerous of anything, is hurting another person. This can go as far as punching him in the arm or killing off an entire nation. One hostile thought forms another and another, and soon we have murders and killings each and every day across the globe. That is why I believe that man, in a way, is lower and far more stupid and idiotic than any animal; we kill ourselves without thinking anything whatsoever about it, and sometimes we even enjoy it. This happens every day, millions upon millions of deaths caused by our very own hands. At least most animals don't fight each other over a damn percentage or a dollar bill. That is what I believe to be the most dangerous thought concieved by mankind, because even the nonchalant thought of doing harm to another, whether great or small, can be the root of a worldwide war and the deaths of thousands upon thousands of innocent lives. That is how war is born, how the thrill of the kill is born. I believe that one of the very first thoughts of mankind is the thought of doing harm to a fellow man. That is the root of our society...and the downfall of our ruthless kind.
2006-09-06 15:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by Display Name 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definatly the Hydrogen Bomb and Nuclear Bombs. There was a test of a Hydrogen bomb by Russia. Just 50 megatons. The fussion caused not only a massive mushroom cloud, but also a 200 mile or so diameter area that was wiped out. In just the U.S. alone, there are enough nuclear bombs to blow up the world 2 times over
2006-09-06 14:03:26 · answer #2 · answered by Davidsbigfoot 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The most dangerous thought was on a poster in the office of the X-Files' Fox Mulder. The poster was a blurry, grainy picture of a UFO and below it, the caption, "I Want to Believe."
The Nazis believed that they were a superior race. The communists believe they can subsume individuality and ignore fundamental laws of economics in favor of a utopian hive society. Creationists believe in the myth taught to them by their equally mythological religion. Criminals believe they will get away with their deeds. Politicians believe they are acting in our best interests. Evangelists believe their religious views are the only correct ones, and that the rest of us must be saved. And people in general believe in all sorts of insane, totally unsupported notions from alien abductions to faith healing.
The desire to believe, against all reason and evidence, is the seed that allows for all other dangerous thoughts. It is the crack in one's intellectual integrity that allows reason to fail.
2006-09-06 14:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Right and wrong (usually I am right and you are wrong). Thence, all kinds of fights about who is right and who is wrong. If people accept everyone and strive for the happiness and wellbeing of everyone, they don't have to prove themselves better, more worthy and more righteous than others, and so don't have the need to make wars and conflicts about everything.
Just imagine for example the Israel/Palestine conflict if you took away the contrarily conflicting notions of right and wrong and just strove for the happiness and wellbeing of all involved - how many lives would you save?
2006-09-06 14:58:54 · answer #4 · answered by juexue 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To those in control: Any thought that questions, and thereby
imparts knowledge.
To those not in control: No thought at all brings about
the most dangerous situation.
2006-09-06 14:06:48 · answer #5 · answered by Adashi 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think the thought that is most dangerous and most common is the fear of death and the illusioned thought of life being for eternity not only do we fool ourselves but we also overlook the true reality!
2006-09-06 14:03:03 · answer #6 · answered by freshcalmbreeze 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The love of money
2006-09-06 14:00:52 · answer #7 · answered by ask4marie 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the most dangerous thought is the one where people decide their own pursuit of happiness allows them to manipulate, deceive, or hurt others in any way.
2006-09-06 14:00:35 · answer #8 · answered by s_e_e 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prejudice.
Its why there's racism, religious conflicts, and general unhappiness in our daily lives.
2006-09-06 17:28:43 · answer #9 · answered by Saffren 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A fellow by the name of Michelangelo thought it up, and then put it on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
2006-09-06 14:15:30 · answer #10 · answered by fra_bob 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋