Would you rather live in a world with good and bad events? Or just good events?

+&-, yin&yang: Without challenge, life would have no meaning.

Without bad there would be no good.

I'd rather there be substantially more good than bad.

That's the highest purpose of living. But quick, say something political, before the tractor-beam takes us to the philosophy-ethics forum:

Democrats & Republicans, or just Democrats?

Neither. One of my workmates (he claims to be 73) says his dad always said you should cull 10% of politicians every year, by lot.

Originally posted by nico
Without bad there would be no good.

You could work around that by having all the bad events be in fiction. That way there'd still be a comparable.

No, you can't every good has to have a bad. It's impossible for a universe to work as such.

Originally posted by hypewaders
Democrats & Republicans, or just Democrats?

If good and bad world events is better than only good events, then isn’t it good when politicians do some bad? Would we lose interest in current events if all the world’s governments got along so smoothly that the news was mostly great everyday? Would we yearn for the days when bombs fell? Or would we be satisfied with the rare natural disaster that still overwhelmed preventative measures?

Even Utopia will always be punctuated by mischief now and then, which will be a welcome antidote to meaninglessness. Nature will always provide challenges, insanities, crises, and disasters. Ahead in time, our more enlightened responses through clearer collective awareness will provide much individual satisfaction, such as when a government is quickly replaced without disruption by its masters, for any act of deception or malpractise.

We're going to discover revolutionary powers of understanding and cooperation through enhanced situational awareness, including visceral understanding of every human perspective. We are alive at the beginning of a turbulent period of unprecedented awakening. As the big picture gets clearer, fear and aggression will be outstripped by hope, wonder, cooperation, striving, and exquisite achievement.

So I guess Bush’s bad is somewhat good (because we need bad to have good) but more bad than good.

I don't expect nature to cooperate entirely with the human endeavor. It just doesn't work that way.

Short of that, if we minimize the human manifestations of evil, life will only become meaningless if we choose it should be so.

One word: Imagine.

Imagine being able to truly choose your own destiny; imagine humanity able to truly set its sights on the Universe.

Nature is enough. Rather, it should be.