A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
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