Can we improve society by “weeding out” its bad, harmful parts?
Question from the Internet:
“Is weeding out liabilities like inefficient and useless humans that play no part in the improvement of society but in turn harm it wrong?”
This is a very dangerous ideology that we have tried to implement many times in history in different settings, different nations, different cultures — all leading to catastrophic results.
The main problem is the following: on what ground, based on what standards can we decide if someone is inefficient, useless, or harmful? After all, we all observe, view reality according to our own, inherently self-centered, self-serving, self-justifying, subjective viewpoints.
Whatever I decide, summarize is true only according to my introverted values, ideals, convictions. No single human being or human group, or even a nation possesses the truth, none of us have any ability to look at, judge the world and others objectively.
It is much healthier and useful to look at reality through Nature’s integrated, finely balanced template. We know that in Nature there is nothing obsolete, there are no accidents, each and every part, element has its own, unique and irreplaceable role, function.
Throughout human history, countless unique parts, cultures, individuals, and nations were wiped out by greater powers who maintained the right to judge others and act according to their own subjective, egocentric views, plans. Today in many countries, societies we find those who blame, judge others and try to correct, suppress or even cancel them to serve their own interest — while maintaining that they are acting for the “greater good”.
As long as we are still all governed by our inherent egos, trapped in our egocentric, subjective caves, consciousness, and perception, we have absolutely no right to judge, change, correct anything. Instead, we all have to criticize, judge and change, upgrade ourselves — based on Nature’s integral template and laws — until we all become able to see the world and others in a completely selfless, altruistic, and objective way above and against our inherent nature.
Then instead of judging, blaming, correcting others we will see that we exist in a perfect world, where only I was imperfect, needing correction.