Ayah5768 wrote:It is difficult for me to answer this question because, on a philosophical level, it doesn't make much sense to me. I mean, what is good without bad? What is right without wrong? Would I give up my sense of what is good if it removed all bad from the world? Huhhh... Theoretically, yes but then what would be left? Would we then live in a world like the one in The Giver? Would we actually want to live in that world?
Personally, I wouldn't want to live in that world. However, I feel confident that the children in Darfur would choose that world over the one they are in. So, for their sake I answered yes and, if given the choice, that is the one I would make--for their sake if not my own.
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**For those who haven't read The Giver**[/center]
The Giver is a book by Louis Lowry. It's a small, easy read about a boy who lives in a world where everything is perfectly fair, the weather is always good, and few are ever exposed to the nastiness of life. The other side of that, though, is that there is no color, no specialness, no love, no sex.
All utopian models that I know of all end in failure because of one aspect of utopian life. Boredom.
The only perfect existence for man is in front of us and most do not see it. Those like me who knows and can see the perfection are mocked.
All because they think God invented evil. He is just the final judge. We decide what top put before Him.
Man is to lead. God, in our image, is to follow.
Remember, as you give up your sense of morality that it is the only difference that I can tell between us and the lower animals. This sense is priceless.
Regards
DL
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