Live or Die?

[Cammie Wagner]

Alright, my friend asked me this question Via myspace yesterday, and I got to thinking about it. SO here goes.


If you lived in a perfect society, everybody has the perfect body, grades, lives, the grass is always green. Theres no fighting everybody is always happy. But tucked away there was this kid, who had to live in a dark rotting closet, in constant pain in order to let this society keep thriving, would you stay? or would you go? remember, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to take the kid with you, or to free him.

Isn't that crazy?

[guiseppe]

Well on the one hand theirs the fact that he is only one person and if I truely wanted to have a perfect life, I would consider it as only one person. But on the other hand if I had no choice but to be perfect, I would leave.

[Cammie Wagner]

you don't want to be perfect?

[guiseppe]

No because if your perfect, everything is predictable. I like surprises and I hate knowing what's going to happen to me. If life was perfect, then I could go down a mountain side and roll and never die.

[Cammie Wagner]

Well, you have a Point, but why would you want to die? I mean, don't you think likfe could have more interesting aspects? Like, you could be perfect at snowboarding, and well you could do all sorts of great stunts, and then never get hurt?

[guiseppe]

Yeah but what's the use on doing that and being good at something if everyone else is good at it too? What's the point on not working and trying hard to accomplish something and never feeling like your an individual? I don't know, I'd hate to be perfect.

[Cammie Wagner]

Thats true, like nobody is different, like a bunch of clones. Could be scary stuff.

[erin]

Originally, I would want to be perfect. Except, I watched a movie once about a place that was percfect. Everyone ended up dying because they were too perfect. It was really creepy. They got too perfect that they stopped eating, talking and breathing. They just kinda layd down and let themselves die. *Shudder*

[alavair]

It's a hard choice... you have to either scarifice one for a greater good, or sacrifice the greater good for one. But you can't do anything to help the kid.. the question makes that clear... so i'd stay.

[zara]

I wouldn't stay, perfection is a matter of opinion. And no one should have to suffer for other people, yes i sound really selfish but you do have to look out for number one, if not alot then at least sometimes. Your only going to be here once.
And plus perfect would get boring after a while, as Guiseppe said everything would be predictable and there'd be no point to anything. Just well boring.

[kitty]

I'd leave. Conflict is what keeps us all alive, it's the air we breathe. I would hate being perfect because the reason we live is to constantly improve, if we're perfect than there's nothing to improve. There's nothing worth living for. i'd probably want to take the kid though. I know I can't but still......

[lukenrenier]

Questions like these are always difficult to answer, but if you look at it from a certain perspective then they're not even worth asking. There can be no such thing as a perfect society, because everyone's idea of perfect is different. Cammie, you even said yourself that the only "flaw" in the society is the person in the closet. But can a perfect society have a flaw? No, therefore the question itself is irrelevant. If I did have to play by the rules though, I'd stay. One must always sacrifice for the greater good of many.

Personally, I'd have to expierience this perfect world in all it's glory before I went back to the real world. This world is absolutely disgusting, I've been to so many places on earth that most people will never hear about. Places where children are starving, dying in the streets, picking through garbage for scraps of food. In Uganda, thoasands of children every night commute from their homes out in the villages to the city by foot, just so they can find a safe place to sleep for fear of being abducted by the rebel army that's terrorizing the country. Every night, the rebels kidnap children for their army. The first thing they do is masacre half of their captives brutally, to desensatize the children. Imagine watching your best friend have his arms cut off, then legs, eyes gouged out, and left to bleed to death right in front of your eyes, him being one of many. Every night. America's not helping, the Children's Christian fund isn't helping.

130 children die each night in Uganda, that's 2 times as many as in Sudan. Most of them are killed, the ones that aren't are brainwashed into killing machines. This is no recent thing, this tradgey has been going on in Uganda for 17 years and most people don't know about it. As a country, America can save most wartorn countries in the world. Instead of instigating an $8 billion dollar a day war in Iraq, we could be helping people who really need us.

That's not the way it works though, not in this world, not here. There is a lot more suffering in this world than is covered on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, any broadcasting company across the world. Our governments let these suffer while their avarice consumes them. It's disgusting, but that's how the world works. We fuck each other over.

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[kaylamarie]

i would leave why have the perfect life many peole wold but would they be truley happy looking like the person next to them???