Jan 7 2012: I beleive we sacrifice happyness and personal freedoms for the greater good of society. all the social obligations we have can sometimes get in the way of our own happyness. "the american dream", for example, creates the illusion of a reward for fulfilling your obligations which entises people to go to school, get a job, find thier true love, have children etc. this sustains our society as a whole...but do those things really appeal to us as idividuals? and if so, is it because we were conditioned to be that way?...just a thought
Jan 7 2012: i think Good and Bad are just labels we put on things that have proven to be either benificial or detrimental to the human race. we created good and evil and i dont think there would be "good" or "evil" without the human race. so from a more objective point of view, its purely an illusion amd we are in fact neither.
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