An ideal society will never exist

Jessica Cote
3 min readFeb 27, 2017

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  • What would your ‘ideal’ society look like?

Everybody believes that an optimal society is one where everybody gets along, no wars occur, and peace is made.A perfect society would be one without anyone having the personality of the seven sins, countries uniting as one, and an active desire to help each other. My only problem with believing in a society like this is that it won’t ever exist. People will push for hate, for pain, for problems, and bring about disaster because human nature is not perfect. We have the power to think about our actions just like we have the power of choice. We are animals but lack any need to use our animalistic instincts in a world civilized by man, Cats have no understanding of right or wrong until we teach them otherwise along with dogs or any other animal as a pet. If you think about it humans are taught much the same. If we pride ourselves more on our ability to learn, evolve, and understand one another there would be less murders, destructive habits, and less pain all around.

Optimally, A culture that structures itself on the kindness of others alone will never exist because we are animals. Human nature from when we were living out off the dirt, grime, and water we could find has us using survival tactics such as grouping in clans, trading, killing, and fighting. We were bred to be fighters. We used skills to create items, make fire, and enhance our ability to survive during harsh weather an ability that every creature has. If you think about the wolf is a group animal unable to survive alone because in a pack each wolf has a mission, a reason, and a skill. Humans were much the same, and still are down the nitty gritty. Wolves are not afraid to fight one another for territory, to abandon a pack member if one is not offering enough to the pack, and to leave an injured behind if necessary. We are a lot the same stemming from our childhood to our growth. When we are born we are taught the basic necessities of language, movement, writing, mathematics, and rationality. School teaches us how to follow the herd or to be the one with lashes on our skin for being different. Adulthood teaches us what it means to either follow the alpha or part from the pack. We learn the value of humanity, or the value of greens in our pockets. Wolves do not have our type of thought process it is all about survival which is not cruel in a way. So, what makes us divide from being survivalistically choicy or cruel?

To read more: http://www.diaryoffantasticdiscoveries.com/2016/12/02/an-ideal-society-will-never-exist/

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Jessica Cote
Jessica Cote

Written by Jessica Cote

I am just a girl among the many fish in the sea. A writer among the many dreamers, and a socialist among others.

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