A question about scoiety and culture as a whole, please can you answer?

Question

I speak to a lot of people about our attitudes in modern society, both towards each other and to the world as a whole. Some say that we should always be kind, giving and understanding, whereas others say we should all take a more hard-line approach to toughen ourselves up in this modern culture we are a part of.

Is it not true that we need all sorts of people to function best as a amalgamated whole? For instance those who believe in stoic self-preservation and have been hardened by their experiences would make the best soldiers and police, able to keep a level head under stress and show no mercy when it is appropriate, whereas all those who are gentle and vulnerable to rudeness and aggression are the sort we want running our nurseries and animal shelters? The people able to detach themselves from the sentimentality of a situation should be leaders, and those willing to work and keep their heads down regardless of their surroundings should be bolstering industry?

Thanks!

What I am trying to get at, though I may not have got my point across too well, is that all of the different outlooks we see on this site and at the world at large all have merits and a place where they can be beneficial to the world as a whole, rather than trying to change everyone to fit in to the same mould of a socio-political ideas.

What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

1) I agree with you
2) society as a whole is fallible to each individuals personal beliefs...sadly there are too many narrow minded individuals who think it is there personal responsibility to shove those said beliefs down everyone Else's throats.

Answer 2

I think religion gets in the way mostly by dividing us. I take as my philosophy, to learn or grasvitate towards the things in different religions I can use to make myself better as a productive person in society. In Tibet the Dahli Lama says "compassion" and "kindheartedness" are the most important pillars of human life.

Now to address your point, I think it would be cool for us to take an exam when were done with high school to see what we would be good at AND happiest doing. The latter is at least as important as how good a person is at any one thing.

We need a fool proof tool to discover each person's potential to help guide them to a fullfilling lfe. I'm agnostic leaning towards Aethism, so I don't regard Religion as being very helpful for mankinds future