Why are people still shocked that the world is not, nor ever will be fair and just?

Question

Is there anything wrong with being realistic?
Action and change doesn't happen only with the idealists you know...

Answer 1

Good question. I ask myself this all the time, but I am an idealist and I would like to make a positive change in people's lives before I die; and there are others out there like me as well. I have always worried more about humanity as a whole than is probably common or normal...but maybe there is a reason why. I don't pray often, either, but my prayers are often answered as they apply to mankind...I've prayed for cures to certain things and seen them in my lifetime. I should probably keep these thoughts to myself.

Answer 2

Many in the world are escapists, and like to live in a pain free world, and there are many avenues to find it, so when ever such people come out of their shell they are shocked and that's what is called being shell shocked!!! So my cure to such as these would be not to paint an otherwise picture for the hurting but gently tell them its O.K. we all hurt one time or the other and thats proof enough to say we ar still human and not zombies. Life is good if we look at the good things and not always project or even dwell too long upon the negatives but on the positives. I think there will b a good start.

Answer 3

Well I'm glad I stopped by..I know the world isn't always fair or just, but I deal with it. I happen to be the only realist I seem to know. I call things as I see them and don't sugar coat anything. It's not that I am mad at everything and everyone it just happens to be the truth...I know the truth hurts..But for what it's worth I did hear someone once say " And the truth will set you free" Just a thought...

Answer 4

We are born in a state of unity with Nature and the Universe (more or less). Then we are exposed to the horrors of this world, and little by little it wears on us, strains us and stresses us. Then at some point, I think, around age five or so, we have an experience in which we learn, once and for all, that the world is not the perfect place we thought. We see the reality of evil in the world. We see the situtation that we're in: that virtually everyone around us is enslaved by evil, and that we have to choose either enslavement for ourselves or to be true to our real nature and thus be different from most everyone around us. To be different would be to stand alone. It would mean being misunderstood and unrecognized by our loved ones, by our own parents, even being hated and feared by the part of them that is enslaved. What an intimidating situation for a child, who is dependent on his parents for everything! And so, virtually all of us choose to be like most everyone else and become one of the enslaved. And this puts us in a terrible situation, because we have to live in denial of the reality of the world. There are two reasons for this. First, it's part of the terms of the enslavement, that we have to pretend everything's fine, that we're not really slaves, that the evil isn't really evil but good. Second, to be conscious of how the world really is would make us conscious of that experience we had and that choice between good and evil that still confronts us every moment, while we are yet still terrified of choosing the good.

So this is why we are shocked every time we are confronted with the reality of evil in the world. We're not really shocked, we're really pretending to be shocked, because we're in denial about what we already know inside. We're trying to make that reality not be, to pretend it doesn't exist, so we have to pretend to be shocked every time we are faced with it, as if that's not the way things really are (or at least are supposed to be). We're terrified to admit that's how the world really is.

(On another level, however, the world is perfectly fair and just. If it doesn't seem so to us, it's because we're stuck in an extraordinarily limited, self-centered view of things. We're caught up in that drama of good vs. evil; we believe we're victims of how the world is.)

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Gosh, what a waste of a five point question for u. But hey! I get 2, or maybe 10 points for my answer! So thanx! (how unfair the world can be huh?)

Answer 7

WHAT THEY ARE SHOCKED ABOUT IS THE FACT NO ONE ELSE FIXED THE WORLD WHILE THEY SAT BY AND WATCHED .

Answer 8

It would all be clear to them if they only read their Bibles more.

Answer 9

we do not want to but we fool ourselves, hoping and wishing that one day it will change