• sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    4 hours ago

    Let’s say we lived in an ideal global society. No inequality, no hatred, no pedo-governments, no war.

    • We would still be immersed 24/7 in a corrosive gas that slowly kills us with each breath we take.
    • Our bodies would still require constant maintenance trough regular and painful excercise.
    • Our bodies would still be ravaged by disease: The cold. The flu. Tooth decay. Anxiety/Depression. Corona. Aging. Cancer. Death.
    • Billions of Pigs would still be tortured every day so this ideal society does not have to waiver anything.
    • We would still work 9-5 doing necessary but boring stuff like cleaning toilets, assembling devices, maintaining machines, disposing of waste, spraying the fields. Because all those modern ameneties require much more work to produce than happiness they generate.
    • We would stilk fear the day when this ideal society collapses, even when this society was actually eternal. Because brains are designed to worry.
    • There would still be plenty of disabled people. Physical and mental. They would not be equal, even in an ideal society. Millions of those would be in constant pain, with no cure in sight.

    Life is only beautiful to masochists and or sadists.

    • dovahking@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      In an ideal society,

      1. We would actively try to clean our environment and aggressively implement renewable energy sources in every aspect.
      2. If you want to live long, you need to keep your body fit. Exercise is the cheapest amount of effort you need to keep it healthy.
      3. Yes, there would still be many incurable diseases but society would be doing the best to find a cure.
      4. Torture isn’t required to run a pig farm. It happens in a society where profit is the utmost priority instead of rearing and quality. Or maybe developing something like cloning only meat instead of a full organism.
      5. An ideal society would implement something like universal basic income or something similar so that everyone can do whatever they like instead of menial labour. Menial labour can be assigned to autonomous systems or robots.
      6. Nothing lasts forever. You can’t do anything about entropy. You can worry for the inevitable demise or live in the moment.
      7. An ideal society would not discriminate anyone on the basis of disability or anyone’s misfortunes. There would be extensive therapies, rehabilitations, redresses and in worst case, voluntary euthanasia.

      An ideal society would do everything in their power to make it an ideal utopia, so why limit it to some pessimistic depiction even in your imagination.

      Life is whatever you perceive it to be. You may have a shitty hand, but it still is yours to play however you want.