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Uthopia It has often been said that Utopian societies are an impossibility. That the so-called "human condition" and man's "inhumanity to man" will preclude it.
Submitted by dmccoydominica on May 10, 2008
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It has often been said that Utopian societies are an impossibility. That the so-called "human condition" and man's "inhumanity to man" will preclude it. Well why? Or rather when your philosophy 101 professor asks the classic question "why?" The classic answer is or should be "why not!" If we can conceive of it, if we can dream it, we can do it, we can make it happen. Nothing is impossible.
The first problem is the "One man's heaven is another man's hell" problem. A Christian utopia may not jive with a Muslim utopia and so on. Would a world without war be a Utopia to a career soldier? Would a world without disease or death be a Utopia to physicians and healers? What about police? They lose in a world without crime. No death puts a period to the funeral and cemetary industries as well. Healing and medicine will not totally end as new problems will always arise, and an immortal is not necessarily invulnerable, accidents and injuries can still happen, though some projections of nanotech suggest a near instantaneous repair capacity from even the most devastating of traumas. Military people can always keep the training alive, the discipline as a sort of sport and a backup just in case we ever again run into another society that does not view peace and prosperity as a good thing. Police could merge with the military. The combined police and military could be modeled on old Taoist Monestaries with a little modern science included. Those are some ideas. As to those who feel the need to die in order to adhere to some religious belief or other, I suppose death could be allowed for those who desire it for a time. But I remember a quote (by someone whose name I can't remember) that goes something like: "Each death diminishes us all...".
As a utopian society progresses it reaches a point where an outside observer can not tell a very high tech society from a low tech one. You might see people riding horses over a roadless terrain when you first...
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