YOU have the power to eradicate evil in the world. How would you accomplish this? (page 3)

jgnat

Universal literacy and health care. Negotiate peace between warring states both within and without. Early intervention and support for children in crisis.

In other words, hack at the roots.

james_woods

Jgnat - you simply cannot stop EVIL with education and universal health care.

You cannot stop war with good-hearted negotiations.

That is complete pablum. Pretty thoughts, but totally unrealistic.

We live in a tough, no-nonsense, world.

botchtowersociety

You alone have the power to eradicate the evil in the world.

Eliminate the freedom to choose. Turn everyone into robots incapable of choosing things we consider evil.

Or we could go with LeavingWT's route of perpetual miracles. Nullify evil choices through perpetual miracles, which also negates the freedom to choose. It also negates any virtue in good choices, since there really is no choice.

Either way, you eliminate choice, whether before or after.

There. No evil. Would this be a better world than the one we live in?

jgnat

Just like the three wishes, this thread offers me a mental exercise if I had the POWER to eradicate evil. In this mental exercise, the negotiations would succeed.

I'm not into pablum. I'm into effectiveness. Wiping out evil people, like vermin, only takes care of the current crop. Incarceration has proven equally ineffective.

From people in the know, who are wading into our tough, no-nonsense world:

Jonas Gahr Støre: In defense of dialogue

David R. Dow: Lessons from Death Row Inmates

The Bangladesh Miracle by Hans Rosling

Vanderhoven7

Let's see....the flood didn't work because there were 8 people left alive.

So I guess I would start rebuilding/remaking man from the inside; a kind of a moral transformational process, whereby human beings could choose and have the power to love and serve selflessly. Of course evil would have to exist and be enticing to some extent, so that moral choices could be a reality...and then there would have to be a way to put past mistakes and evil which all have participated in, be removed and forgiven. Now since no one needs to forgive or deserves to be forgiven, that would be the hardest thing to arrange for and build into the system.

Phizzy

I haven't had time to read all the thread yet so someone may have mentioned this.(supposed to be cooking dinner)

I remember a similar thread some time ago , and a poster said he was in the DtoD work and posed this question to a HH who promptly replied with the Conversation Stopper "Get rid of all religion!"

james_woods

Just like the three wishes, this thread offers me a mental exercise if I had the POWER to eradicate evil. In this mental exercise, the negotiations would succeed.

I understand. Glad you understand too, Jgnat.

The problem with the mental excersize, though, is that you really cannot eliminate evil from humanity without removing free choice - basically, you would have to make humans into robots who only obey the laws you have selected as "not evil".

botchtowersociety

The problem with the mental excersize, though, is that you really cannot eliminate evil from humanity without removing free choice - basically, you would have to make humans into robots who only obey the laws you have selected as "not evil".

Good observation. JGnat's scenario amounts to the same thing as mine.

botchtowersociety

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