If you could make the world a utopia would you do it.?

Question

The cost of making the world a utopia is to allow a nine year old child to suffer excruciating pain constantly. Would you be willing to allow this child to suffer so the world can be a utopia? Could you do it if it were your own child that had to suffer in order for the world to become a utopia?

Answer 1

If it would truly make the world a perfect place - a utopia - then yes. I would do it. I would do it to my own child. I would even volunteer myself.

I would go so far as to say that NOT sacrificing the child is monstrous.

Think about it: how many children are ALREADY suffering constant agonizing pain? How many families are torn apart? How many people starve because of greed, are raped because of lust, or tortured just by the heartless machinations of inefficient systems they find themselves in?

What kind of a person can end the suffering of millions (Hundreds of millions? Billions?) and doesn't? People ALREADY spend their entire lives trying to end these things! Doesn't the cost vanish into insignificance compared to the reward?

Answer 2

I would never be able to make a child suffer in order to make the world a untopia. Whether the child was my own or someone elses. For starters, I, personally couldn't do it. Second, an utopia is impossible. The only one that exsists in Heaven. Human nature rebels the idea of utopias. Look at any of the books and/or movies that deal with them. A "free thinker" always comes along and starts a revolution. So utopias can be created but they cannot be maintained making it pointless to have a child suffer for its exsistence.

Answer 3

The cost of Utopia isn't a nine year old child suffering. The cost is the lack of appreciation for the good. A Utopia once existed in the Garden...we blew it! If God gave His only begotten Son so we all can be saved and people still are stubborn...why would I let my child suffer so people can experience Utopia?

Answer 4

I would not do it even if there was no cost. First, I don't believe that my utopia would necessarily be everyone's utopia. Second, I don't think that a perfect utopia is a desirable condition. A perfect utopia would mean that there would not be any need to make anything better or to learn anything more. People would become stupid and bored. The search of perfection is good but it should not (and I think it could not) reach its goal.

Answer 5

Is he like Bart Simpson?

The answer is of course... NOOOO! A utopia bought at such a cost is illegitimate and deserves an armegeddon. We have other such actions to 'make a better world' in history... all failed.. fact is, if we want to remain human, both the good parts and the bad, we will never get that utopia. And that's okay. We can approach the concept and for me, that's good enough. The imperfect human is perfect for that very quality.

Peace

Peace

Answer 6

The dire and horrifying conditioning of your question indicates the futility of seeking to establish utopias in the first place. The pursuit of utopian visions has been the cause of intense mischief in the world, and if the twentieth century is any example, we need to let the illusions of utopian ideologies-- be they secular or religious-- to molder and decay on the ash heap of history.

Answer 7

It call Heven!