2007-01-18 14:26:00 · 15 answers · asked by Paley Pale 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Greed.
2007-01-18 14:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by dudezoid 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paley, you've got a good one here. Wish I could answer it! Every time I think I've hit on "the" most dangerous concept on Earth, another one occurs to me....
I guess I could sum them all up in a restatement of your question:
Man is the most dangerous animal on (and to) the Earth.
2007-01-18 16:11:19 · answer #2 · answered by katbyrd41 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the concept of the nation state. This has been the cause of every war I can think of!
2007-01-18 21:13:52 · answer #3 · answered by perthboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That infants and toddlers and preschoolers don't need their mommies to nurse, hold, and love them on demand for about 5 years. This dangerous concept leads to such emotionally screwed up people.
2007-01-18 14:49:01 · answer #4 · answered by t jefferson 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy
2007-01-18 15:12:08 · answer #5 · answered by Danielle F 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
absolutism. The idea that things are either this OR that and nothing in between. Usually seen as good or bad, right or wrong. The individual usually sees themselves or their affiliates as right and everyone else as wrong making for a society that will not get along.
2007-01-18 14:28:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Left Wing Liberalism. Just ask Hillary, Bill, the Heinz catsup clan, John Edwards, et al...
2007-01-18 16:06:19 · answer #7 · answered by Patricia D 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The concept that anything different from you if strange or a threat.
2007-01-18 14:29:50 · answer #8 · answered by Arthur N 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free Will
2007-01-18 15:15:36 · answer #9 · answered by shellybear0520 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ethnocentric Theism (The tendency to proclaim the prejudices of one's granparents to be the Will of God.)
2007-01-18 14:39:23 · answer #10 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋