A perfect world....?

Question

"what would you do if the world was perfect...and there was no poverty, and everyone was equal."
"wouldn't it be great if there was equality and no war or hate and nothing but love"

I hate questions like those...I would like people who agree and disagree about the world being perfect and so on, really think about it and ask themselves do they really believe the world should be perfect or not....I did the same and I think it would be incredibily boring...stupid and pointless to live if there was no poverty,war,hate...simply because I like obsticals and conquring those around me. To be able to prove I am worth something or different from others, I could not accomplish in a perfect world. So tell me what you think. Do you really want the world to be perfect...atleast near perfect?

let me explain my opinion a little more...
war, pain, hate, sorrow, agony, poverty, are very important to me not because I'm a depressed maniac, but because if one does not know these thing then a person can not trully understand what it is to be happy.

Answer 1

if you ever read the book "The Giver" then you know that a perfect world is not that great because if you remove the obstacles in life and hardships we would never trully know what sucess and happiness is. if we were all equal life would become dull as we wouldnt have something to strive for.

Answer 2

Firstly, it's not the world that have to be good, but us. Sometimes we wish we could have genie in the bottle, or Aladdin's magic lamp, to make our dreams come true. In fact, some of our dreams are very selfish & childish. We think if the world works like that, it'll be 'perfect', but in fact it never satisfies us. Only if we dedicate ourselves to make this world a better place, then we will be satisfied. We will be happy, because normally we will appreciate our toil. Something that is given ususally are 'taken for granted', thus we will never realize the value. Actually, it's not about how the world IS, but how we WORK for it.

Answer 3

Humans have a tendency to be competitive, need proof to be competitive, need to strive and want to feel better than others if they worked for it. Also, yes, a plain, "everything given on a platter, equally to everyone" life is quite boring. So, I agree with you - a perfect world, if defined as everyone is equal can be quite boring. That's why communism and socialism don't do that well (besides the people in power, who while claiming communism/socialism, personally don't buy it for themselves and become corrupt, basically reinforcing lack of equality themselves by taking more than what everyone else gets). The competitive nature and want for variety in life is hardwired into our genes and brains.

That said, personally, I wouldn't go that far as you are describing lack of need for a better world (let me stress, I am not supporting to the extent you are describing a perfect world and not wanting it). For example, having wars and too much poverty isn't needed for us to satisfy our basic needs. You don't need a million people dying in a nuclear attack and a thousand people getting killed every day so that you can realize the value of your life.

Similar when it comes to poverty - i am seeing amazing amount of poverty around me - it doesn't make me happier because I am not. I do wish and want their lives to be better - may not be everything I have but definitely, as humans, they deserve a better life and given the lack of furtune, they don't. My better world calls for them to have basic needs fullfilled.

I can expand the theory further to other aspects you have described, in a similar thought process.

So, no, i don't want a perfect world. I want a better world. A world that still provides meaning, competition, a bit of variety and challenges. But I don't want a world with a bunch of morons dumping tons of nuclear warhead in someone else's country or societies that give a blind eye to a person who is struggling to eat three meals a day while some of them driving around in air conditioned cars, burning more fuel than what it takes to feed that poor person (remember, i am a person who wants to teach people how to fish - i am not too much for charity). I don't need disasters and dispairs around me to feel good about my life.

You have good thought process - but I am afraid, it is too individualistic and assumes things like happiness exists only if there is sadness somewhere else (kind of Yin Yang thing). We are social animals - not a bunch of apes running around thinking only about ourselves.

Answer 4

You like obsticals and conquring? Wow! There's a start to an imperfect world. Your on you way.

Answer 5

Your addition is true you cannot truly be happy if you cannot truly be sad. You need sadness to have happiness