some thousand years ago there was a kingdom. one day a giant dragon the size of a mountain arrived, he plundered the kingdom killing thousands of people destroying enormous amounts of property. every week the dragon started doing same thing, . as the technology available to them was very inferior, they had no way to kill the dragon , the wise men said why not make a deal with it, so that a thousand men will be sent every week to the dragon as its food, and in retun it will let the kingdom live peacefully. the deal was struck. years went by and the deal was kept from both sides.slowly a lottery system was introduced to send people, roads and trollies were constucted to send the people to the mountain,hundreds of thousand people were employed in the industry, one day a young man came with a new technology which could kill the dragon. but the people became worried . they argued there will be enormous job lost, economic slump and besides chances of killing th dragon was uncertain .
2007-12-13 03:19:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
unless the dragon really has it in for people, why not feed it cows or something? and can a kingdom really produce a thousand new people every week? especially after all the dragon's initial plundering?
neverminding that second point though, and getting back to the first: besides the war, this also makes me think of the meat industry; whereas the human population by now has learned ways of producing a nutritionally suficcient vegan diet, the breeding, raising, slaughtering, and cutting up of animals continues to be an economically entrenched practice. why continue the killing and the death if it is unneccesary for life to go on?
2007-12-13 04:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph G 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds a little to much like our world today.
Plenty of technology as well as common items that could help make the world a much better place. But Big business would lose to much money (only making a few billion rather than a few 100 billion) if they allowed them to be used so they have the governments pass laws preventing it or making it to cost prohibitive. And then there are the people that say “yea it’s a good idea help change things but doing that it would mean I have to do something different and it could effect my job and my life.
And I have to say it gets really frustrating trying to help people that are screaming “Help us we are drowning!” But then refuse to grab the rope when it is thrown to them. Using every excuse from it’s to much trouble, it’s the wrong color, or I can only grab onto pure cashmere covered lines or whatever other excuse.
For what it is worth, I have been battling a version of your dragon and the kingdom for a very long time.
2007-12-13 03:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by jerrys1960 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What we need to do is get a third party to do the dirty work so if things go bad the mad dragon doesn’t look to us for retribution
2007-12-13 07:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does one give advice to a fictional, ancient, and extinct people?
2007-12-13 03:24:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋