if you could eliminate one thought from people's minds...?

Answer 1

The need for war / conflict.

Answer 2

I would like to replace a lot of words from people's minds. I would change all the negative motivators. Take for example the word problem. What is that?
Example: you walk on the street looking to the sky and you bump into something. After this experience that person, if s/he has the concept of problem, might think:
- I shouldn't do that
- If I do that again, than I'm wrong
- people that do that have a problem
and sometimes thy decide to walk looking down for the rest of their lifes. Sometimes whole societies decide to walk looking down.
They might also think that a problem is something that makes them feel in a certain way. And when they get that feeling they say "we have a problem right here", like when seeing that somebody is keeping glasses in the fridge. They might react to every strange situation by blocking themselves and/or feeling bad. They lose the very important part of the concept problem, which is the risk.
I would replace the world problem with the word risk or risky activity or decision.

"If you happen to be a government, you can talk about nominalizations like "national security" and you can get people to worry about those words. Our president just went to Egypt and changed the word "imperative" to the word "desirable" and suddenly we're friends with Egypt again. All he did was change a word. That's word magic" (Richard Bandler, Frogs into Princes, 1979).

Answer 3

i would eliminate the thought of being unhappy because people need to be happy with what they have and everyone has a purpose nobody is worthless

Answer 4

Definatley jelousy.

If you think about it- it really is the root of all evil. We always want what we dont have and when someone does have what we want (if we can admit it to ourselves or not) we end up hating them for no reason. So we get hate, nastiness, evil, and various other emotions just from jelousy.

Answer 5

Man only one?...

Okay, here's my wish list in order of most to least wanted.

1. Racism/Intolerance
2. Individualism
3. Liberalism
4. Hippy-ism (I know, not exactly a thought, but I don't like hippies)
5. Rap (ditto)

I'm sure there are more, but I'm sleepy.

Answer 6

I would have eliminated your thought to ask this question......but then I would not be answering it now would I?

Answer 7

the belief that humans are seperate from nature, but to eliminate that i would have to eliminate religion from peoples minds.

Answer 8

i wuld eliminate ENVY becoz form jealousy hate starts and then everything wrong starts so i wuld eliminate jelousy

Answer 9

Love... Its the one thing that starts all the wars, the hates, and all the confusion.

Answer 10

Hate.