Quote (Duckling @ 19 Oct 2014 23:55)
I seemingly can never understand why people want to suppress anything that is right? We always oppress anything that "kills" profit? Do we not understand what profit is? I just have a hard time believing that with the way things are we are not a better species? Why is it that people are so greedy and instead not intuitive?
I may have watched a lot of power rangers as a child, and that at the end of the season the evil always seems close to victory, but somehow good prevails. I only HOPE that this is what happens in reality. I just do not understand why people choose to be 'EVIL'.
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PaRD responses to why!?!?!?
On a different type of forum than d2jsp I wrote an essay once, what triggered it was.
Looking over my son's shoulder I noticed that he was watching the beginning of
2001 A Space Odyssey you know the part, when early man (cave men) first learn to pick up a weapon, a bone, to hit an enemy with. Then the bone goes flying up into the air, and keeps flying up into space and becomes the spaceship, well if you don't know the scene you do now. What struck me is the technology that has developed where I could watch that scene on a device no bigger than a cellphone. It's astounding what man has achieved in science and medicine even from just the time
2001 Space Oddysey was made to the present but if you look further back in history to when we first arrived. And I'll even count creationism time for those believers.
Think of the growth we've had in both science and medicine, in physics space, math, etc....Then think of the first response when we get angry I mean really angry, we respond in violence. somebody pushes you, what do you do? push back right? because not pushing back is what? a sign of.......weakness. That's the gut check answer am I right? At the same time we know that answering in violence just results in more violence, and finding out why you were pushed in the first place may have diffused the entire event.
What I'm trying to say is that to answer your question, we have developed in so many areas, and in a relatively short amount of time, and if you look at it in perspective our innovative growth is snowballing, yet our social skills in handling anger, prejudice, and equality are still back near the using our thumbs to grip stage. Societies that can make plastic and glass boxes the size of your palm that can play movies, should be able to solve conflicts without killing each other, should be able to grant all of their citizens equal rights without a second thought, and shouldn't have a single citizen homeless and hungry.