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Chu
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 Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:14 pm
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| Definitely. War is such an intimidating word that people automatically think of the countless casualties. There are four different definitions as seen here, and sadly people only tend to consider the second.
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| a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply |
And no problem. XD We can drop the discussion for the day.
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ecco
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:20 pm
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| yea i just dont have it in me to get too philosophical tonight, haha! though in truth, i love discussions like this as it helps to keep an open mind ^^
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:05 pm
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| Chu wrote: |
War is a necessary evil; people need to understand that it's required to earn status/respect, move forward, learn lessons, and above all, it's population control. Sacrifices must be made in order for a society to advance, so human lives or even inferior societies are definitely worth it. America, for example, would be nowhere today if countless lives weren't lost. Was it worth it? That's all a matter of opinion, but if people are able to look beyond their emotional perception of war they can see the greatness that came from it.
Plus, humanity is only a small blemish on the overall history of earth. We live, fight, and die for a greater purpose; how we die doesn't necessarily matter. In the end those lives are forgotten and society moves on because that's all it can do. Considering war a bad thing is merely romanticizing the way the world works. Humans are not the only species on the planet to wage war; we're just the only species to give it a word and emotional attachment. |
I understand this I just meant that unnecessary wars should not exist. And there are unnecessary wars that are being fought right now and the people losing their lives shouldn't be.
The US government has even stated that they are unnecessary.
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Menmeth
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:36 am
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| Of all the ills of the world, the one thing that I feel should be changed is the hubris that drives so many to horrid acts. That arrogance that enables intelligent, rational, sane people to block out the rest of the world and becomes idiots and monsters. Animals steal, kill, and even make war (I've even seen several male sparrows sexually assaulting a female), but they don't try to force their opinions on others in the way that humans do. If what we had to deal with were crimes of necessity and passion, I do not think the world would be anywhere near as dark as it is... and I might retain some faith in humanity.
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ecco
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:15 am
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| i agree with you, menmeth >_<crimes>.<
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:13 am
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| If I could change anything about the world we live in, I think I'd change society - its contraversial, I know, but eliminating this idea of a 'free market' would be beneficial, in my opinion. This idea that people should take oppotunities and open doors for themselves only seems to lead to the exploitation of someone else. It breeds inequality, corruption and poverty.
Yep. People get frustrated with my 'commie' ideas, but I genuinely think a state-run economy would be more beneficial than this laissez-faire, unsupervised chaos.
Besides, inequality within society is, in my opinion, the root cause to psychological trauma and criminal behaviour. Eliminate economic chaos and you might have a better world for everyone - environmentally, socially, economically, etc.
Idealistic, I know, but we can only hope. c:
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Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:15 pm
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| I wouldn't change anything, The world's changing already.
Homosexuality starts to get accepted, Though it's kind of slow.
Racism slowly ends.
War, Well i don't know how long it will continue, But we can only hope that it stops soon.
The money crisis, Well money isn't everything.
So let's say = Nope, Don't wanna change anything because the world's already changing, In a slow way.
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Miriallia
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Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:41 am
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Racism slowly ends.
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I guess that's totally your opinion, but I for one, know that racism won't end. I'm black and I know that just being in the public school system, people judge you by your skin. It might just be in the neighborhood I live in or something, but racism is all around, and I don't think it will ever go away...
But if I could change one thing, I think it would be communism. Then again, everything has a purpose...the problems we face daily either build or break us. Either way, you learn something from the conflicts of life, and it adds to you, as a person.
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:49 pm
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| Somalina wrote: |
If I could change anything about the world we live in, I think I'd change society - its contraversial, I know, but eliminating this idea of a 'free market' would be beneficial, in my opinion. This idea that people should take oppotunities and open doors for themselves only seems to lead to the exploitation of someone else. It breeds inequality, corruption and poverty.
Yep. People get frustrated with my 'commie' ideas, but I genuinely think a state-run economy would be more beneficial than this laissez-faire, unsupervised chaos.
Besides, inequality within society is, in my opinion, the root cause to psychological trauma and criminal behaviour. Eliminate economic chaos and you might have a better world for everyone - environmentally, socially, economically, etc.
Idealistic, I know, but we can only hope. c: |
What you are describing is basically Socialism. In theory, it's a great idea that helps many. In real practice with real people, it's actually far more damaging than you may imagine. Under Socialism, everyone, regardless of what they do, gets the same amount of everything. As with welfare, you have people who need it, and people who abuse it and work the system. if you are not gaining some sort of reward for working, why bother working at all? What happens then? No one desires to work because they get the same thing regardless of if they work or not. There's no incentive to work. With people not producing anything, what really is there to share at the end of it all? Many people would stop working because there's nothing to gain from it.
Helping others is a great and wonderful thing. But forcing everyone onto an equal level makes things stagnant. Without the free market, there is no progress because there's no desire to strive for better. After all, who would want to spend years of their life spending money on research and creation of something that could be beneficial to others and get nothing in return for all of that money and time that you put into it to at the very least compensate you for your time, investment and effort?
What I would like to change is segregation, not just racially, but religious segregation. We are all humans, and we are all entitled to our spiritual beliefs. No person has any right to discriminate based on skin pigmentation or what invisible man or woman they do or do not worship.
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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:36 pm
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| I have to say that I wouldn't change the world one bit, instead I would change people. There are numerous things that shouldn't exist or are just disgusting, but most of these are down to humans. Sure not everyone is the same and some people are truly twisted, but I think that if everything was perfect we wouldn't know anything.
Things like violence, everyone no matter what, gets angry and may want to harm someone (whether it be themselves) but we learn to deal with those issues safely. The same thing should apply to all of these horrible things in the world; we should acknowledge them and try to learn from them so as to better ourselves.
A common moral question that's sometimes asked is, Would you have stopped Hitler if you could have?. Everyone answers the question, but the one that I agree with the most is: No, whose to know if something worse than Hitler would have happen. The same thing can be asked about nuclear weapons, even though they are disgusting things and should never have been made, let alone used; maybe they had to be used so that the world could see how awful they are to learn that they shouldn't even exist.
So my answer is no. I believe that everything happens for a reason and that sometimes we have to experience unpleasant things for us to grow.
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:45 am
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| I think Chu has pretty much summed it up,
I wouldn't change anything either.
All things happen for a reason, and well even though it's painful it continues.
I think people are always going to be react negatively to things that they aren't comfortable with or that they don't understand. Difference breeds hostility, and if it's not race of religion it would just be something else.
On the Hitler aspect, I have always wondered what would have happened if they had just let him in to art school. I don't know if that's something I would change but it would he interesting to see how that would have played out.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:49 pm
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| ummm.....I would make everything equal between teens and adults I dont like the way teenagers are treated they have the right to choose too some of us are smarter than some adults
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Raz
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:03 pm
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| I wouldn't change a thing.
Not 1.
War: necessary for various reasons.
Rape: I HATE it, but it shows that humans are far from being good and/or finished growing
Famine: A necessary issue for various reasons
Crime: Shows that humans arent supposed to be grouped in such large number (3 cheers for transidentalism)
I believe that everything has a purpose (not that sappy "everything happens for a reason" b.s.)
The reason why it has a purpose is for you to decide.
I've thought heavily about "bad" things that have happened and realized that they arent so bad.
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:03 pm
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| Everything occurs upon itself. Everyone needs a job to feed themselves and live (even if it does mean illegally).
Because of this, everyone has a job, weather it be a drug dealer or a cop. If they do not have a job, they will fall out of the stream of society and die, for they are useless to the system that has been placed upon the mainstream already.
I would not change anything because that would mean the civilisation would collapse in on itself and therefore, all of us would die off. Although, there is a slim chance of us being brought together again, I doubt it would happen.
We're too advanced for that to happen again. We lost some instinct, if you ask me.
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TGPretender
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:15 pm
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| Instead of changing the world in general, I would change the people. TO be honest, humans are a race of evil, selfish, and disgusting thugs. There are a few good souls among us but not nearly as many as the bad. Even a good man can do wrong by doing nothing at all.
The change I would bring about is empathy. I believe if more people could understand the feelings of their fellow man and could feel for them, this world could be a much better place to live.
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