2006-10-23 08:07:08 · 9 answers · asked by Doug 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Try to answer this using civil liberties. (i.e. Amendments)
2006-10-23 08:13:34 · update #1
money is the root of all evil and oil of course
2006-10-23 08:09:05 · answer #1 · answered by Mary Smith 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with at least two of these answers so far..
Differences in religion, if only because it's my own pet peeve, and people in general. As old as I am, I'm still learning things about people that I would've never believed in my youth. I used to think that people in the USA, at least, were more or less on the same page. As I get older and listen to others points of view a bit better, I find that so many people have nearly incompatible points of view to my own. Apparently educated people believe things that make me think they also believe the Earth is flat.
Back in the 70s when I grew up, I thought we (the people of the USA) were more or less on the same page. People pretty much everybody accepted the theory of evolution as being real (with only a few crazy holdouts thinking otherwise). Pretty much everybody thought the environment needed protecting. Pretty much everybody believed that gasoline efficiency was a good thing.
But in the 2000s, it seems as though the 'done deals' of the 1970s are under constant attack by a vocal, growing, and apparently educated segment of the population. There is no 'reasoning' with these people because their reality just isn't the same as mine.
I have a neighbor who believes that the theory of evolution has been proven to be untrue, and I have concluded that I can't really have any kind of rational discussion about it with him. He has different sets of 'facts' with which he constructs his reality. It's as though we could debate the color of the sky, when what I see is blue and what he sees is pink.
Similarly, the 9-11 terrorists and their supporters obviously have a completely different world outlook which is incompatible and not open for debate with the non-believers such as myself.
So in conclusion, I think groups of us live in different and often incompatible realities. The different realities being somehow sustainable in the overall society, and it is the differences/incompatibilities in these realities which create and encourage conflict.
2006-10-23 15:37:58 · answer #2 · answered by billclawson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Governments who spend it all on their military while their people starve, factionalism within religion, Politicians who line their own pockets, and get caught doing it!..all forms of corruption are there when the people dont have a say in who gets elected, so one party decides they were 'frauded' in the last 'votescammed' election, and its on for young and old!..
2006-10-23 15:18:56 · answer #3 · answered by paranthropus2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The breaking down of the family unit.
Without it, no individual is complete or healthy.
Individuals make up a country,
and they bring their problems with them
2006-10-23 15:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by savanna m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor, Lack of work, Police robbing the citizens!!
2006-10-23 15:13:15 · answer #5 · answered by alfonso 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mixing politics with religion.
2006-10-23 15:10:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lack of proper policing.
2006-10-23 15:07:58 · answer #7 · answered by roxy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people ( serious here - most people can't keep harmony in their own household , the more people the more stress )
2006-10-23 15:08:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
religion
2006-10-23 15:09:50 · answer #9 · answered by curious moper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋