Thinking back to the question about creating a utopia, I have come to the conclusion that. there is not need to attempt to create a utopia like that of Brave New World or The Giver. Our current society is our utopia.
With disease, dictatorships, disease, crime, and pain our society may not fit the typical definition of a utopia. Dictionary.com describes a utopia as “an ideal place or state”. It is my belief that our society is ideal because it caters to our needs as humans. Even the ugliest aspects of our society our essential in our utopia. Sure discrimination is not pretty, but I believe that it feeds into our need, as humans, to classify different aspects of our life. Disease may also seem frightening, but it is essential for keeping the human population from breaching the carrying capacity of our world, it keeps us ecologically healthy. Even aspects of greed, anger, love, jelousy, and lust are necessary because they allow us to exercise the emotions and complex thinking that set us apart form the other animals in this world, that make us human. Our society is molded to the aspects of humans.
If anyone tries to take these aspects away they are destroying the aspects that make us human. Supporters of euthanasia are also supporting the destruction of diversity that allows each human to be unique and allows the human population to be diverse. It is also not natural for humans to be pumped with pills and laden with machinery because it takes away the aspects that make us humans. Eventually we will all end up looking like Darth Vayder who is “more machine than man” if we try to expand our longevity past what is human.
Humans are not flawless, so why should our utopia be?
To create a “utopia” like that of The Giver, Brave New World, or the world envisioned by Ray Rouzwell would strip our society of everything that makes us human.
You may see a world full of trouble, but I see a world that is human.
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I definitely agree with you. The creation of a perfect society would take the meaning of being human away. Being human means making mistakes and experiencing emotions that can be seen as being awful. Even the worst parts of life are needed to live. These imperfect parts of life help humans grow as a whole. Life would not be complete with out the bad aspects of it ,it would all just be a lie.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you Ben. You say that we already are a utopia because it is an ideal place for humans even with the presence of disease and discrimination. However, what is the viewpoint of those with diseases or those that are discriminated. I am asthmatic and have a fragile body and although I am human, I do not see this world as an ideal utopia. Humans themselves are all different. What may be ideal to one human is not ideal to the other.
ReplyDeleteI cite the constitution in my argument. The right to pursue happiness and most important of all, well being. It is an inherent trait to seek something better. To those humans who have seen that there is something better because they know they are worse can attest to this concept. Therefore, we must pursue the creation of a utopia because "our utopia" is far from ideal for all humans.
flaws are what make us human. if we were to become "perfect" we would not be human. if everyone were created equal there would be no competition. with a lack of competition, there is no true happiness. in a utopian society (such as the giver or brave new world) there is a happiness which is given out and is not pursued. therefore it is meaningless. those with a disease or facing discriminatin would have to fight harder than the rest to acheive hapiness. they will experience a fuller sense of happines and will feel a greater sense of accomplishment than those who have happiness thrust upon them. our current society allows for this.
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