Heated discussion broke out last class that left me thinking.
"There are fundamental laws that cannot be broken. Gravity for instance."
"There are other sort of laws, speeding laws, laws on society that society creates to maintain order."
If there is such a fundamental law like gravity , as Quinn describes, that is the law of how we ought to live, then how could we be breaking it? Not until Newton 'discovered' the law of Gravity, nobody knew it existed. It was right in front of our face, yet it was so obvious that we never saw it. You cannot break the law of Gravity. Sure, we try. We go to space, we float around a little bit. But in all actuality, here on earth we cannot break it. If this law on how we ought to live is real, it seems unfathomable that we could be breaking it so miserably that we are destroying the world. There is no doubt in my mind that the world is being destroyed by human actions. But then is there really a law that tells us how to live if we have been breaking it for soo long? Or is it like space travel, we're not really breakin it, but finding a way around it?
Ahh the law :) I cant tell you how much I enjoyed this discussion. I have been thinking about the question you have posed to a while now. While I dislike being a person who compromises on ideas like this I came up with a "new way of thinking"
ReplyDeleteMy first thoughts on this idea were that we are indeed breaking a law on how to live. The proof that we are breaking it is that we are dying, we are destroying the world little by little and we can see our end coming. This is our punishment for living beyond the boundries of a law that constrains all life.
However, now as I look at it, if there is a law, it cannot be broken. So we therefore cannot be breaking it. Could we simply just be ingjoring the law?
When man ignored the laws of aerodynamics he crashed, when Newton ingored the law of gravity he got hit with an apple, and when culture ignored the law on how to live it destroyed itself.
something to ponder :)
True that. Ignorance could be the simple answer to all of our problems.
ReplyDeletehmmmm... really good ones right there... just similar to what i wrote about how what if we have already defied the law on how to live or just ignored it like we are good at... what other explanation is there to why we are flawed? there is none... why do we have to screw things up? This question- problem is beyond civilization.
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