It has often been said that Utopian societies are an impossibility. That the so-called "human condition" and man's "inhumanity to man" will preclude it. Well why? Or rather when your philosophy 101 professor asks the classic question "why?" The classic answer is or should be "why not!" If we can conceive of it, if we can dream it, we can do it, we can make it happen. Nothing is impossible.
The first problem is the "One man's heaven is another man's hell" problem. A Christian utopia may not jive with a Muslim utopia and so on. Would a world without war be a Utopia to a career soldier? Would a world without disease or death be a Utopia to physicians and healers? What about police? They lose in a world without crime. No death puts a period to the funeral and cemetary industries as well. Healing and medicine will not totally end as new problems will always arise, and an immortal is not necessarily invulnerable, accidents and injuries can still happen, though some projections of......
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