Authority

"I cannot accept your resolution" I'm a little confused here because the only resolution proposed here is your resolution. I think you might be proposing that we take this debate in a different direction, but I was kinda down to have a debate about rebellion and a lawless world. So I propose we find a middle ground where we can talk about both authority in our society and authority throughout the world's history. Let me begin by rebutting your points. "You however conceited to your knowledge of authorities corruption and lack of ethics." That is correct, I concede that when there is power there is corruption. However, I argue that we need this authority to keep the peace, and we will always have corruption even if we abolish authority. "That is the fundamental relationship between us and the people we ALLOW have power! Where is the carrot? We are very familiar with the stick:" Well if I have one thing to say is that you're damn good with these analogies. "1. Inflation increases 600% while minimum wage increases by 30%" These numbers seem pretty off to me and I would really like a source with this, but I'll rebut this anyways. One common misunderstanding people have about the minimum wage is that it's what people are meant to live on. However, what many of them do not know is that a minimum wage job is not meant to be a career that people live off. It's sort of like the job some poor college student gets to have experience in the future while he tries to slowly pay off his student loans. So my point is while the minimum wage is low it's meant to be nothing but a starting job. "2. Health care system and Education systems are neglected" May I remind you that the only reason we have health care and education is because of authority that advanced civilization. Also while many issues come up with health care and education progress is being made towards making healthcare universal and affordable and making education available for everyone. While I can understand the frustration someone would have, but you can't just blame everything wrong with the world on authority. "3. Welfare increases while people who work feel slighted." Ahh welfare, a very delicate issue. On one hand we shouldn't just leave the unsuccessful and their families to starve, on the other hand we don't want to allow lazy people to be a drain on society. So let's look at the issue, when it comes down to it the only people you can really blame is the people who abuse welfare. You can not really blame the authority for this. "4. Corporations take over every facet of society." This is a perfect example of not having enough authority over corporations. Corporations controlling the world is a serious issue, for many of them serve no cause other than greed and are vacant of morals. So how do we stop this? Authority. We need regulations to control the corporation's power. This again is not something you can blame on authority and is instead a reason why we need authority. "5. Disintegration of the Middle Class!" So what I believe Con is referring to is the government using the middle class to support the whole system, for example the middle class works while they are give support to the lower class and impoverished. However Con forgets that this burden is shared throughout the entire class system. "Do you know how to prosper as a nation? Everyone work there asses of at pointless job" So I have a question for you: What's the alternative to this? Would you prefer no one works and runs around doing whatever the hell they want while society erodes around them? People work for a reason. They work to keep the economy flowing and without that we wouldn't have the luxuries we have today, you know like cheap food, medicine, air conditioning, plumbing etc. So let's look at how you put it. We spend our lives working to make a livable wage. You call this process pointless. Well obviously working isn't going to be the highlight of our lives, so what is? Even with having a job you can socialize, party, chill and live. Having a job isn't stopping you from living. By having a job you are given the ability to live while having enough time to give yourself a reason to live, and besides how do that old quote go? "Work at a job you love and never work a day in your life" " Shame on all of us.. especially the majority of us watch as they eat cake... Promising that one day we may have a taste" Maybe the problem here is that people are striving for the wrong things. Instead of lusting after what we don't have we need to work with what we have to make ourselves happy. Isn't that the point of life anyways? You know once your 5 feet under it's not gonna matter how much money you had, or how nice your house was. Instead what's going to matter is how happy you were when you lived and how good your run was. And authority gives us the opportunity to have a good run and enjoy our lives. Sure it causes some problems, but that's just something we have to deal with. The good of authority by far outweighs the bad. Authority gives us a way to live without constant fear of death. Authority gives us a chance to do what we love, and better find someone to love in peace. And isn't that really what matters when it comes down to it. Authority gives us peace and a good life and that's a good enough reason to keep and appreciate it. "The police. The justice system. Politicians!! Pointless without leaders!" Well let me break some news to you. There's a lot of corrupt police, judges and politicians, but there's a lot of heroes in law enforcement that truly care about keeping the streets safe. There's a lot of judges that care about bringing justice to the world. Lastly there's a lot of politicians that have a vision of a better world and that's what they are trying to reach. We have leaders and we have heroes, but we have villains too and that's inevitable. There's nothing that can be done to change that. " point out the obvious need for 4 Billion people to rebel. " This will result in nothing, but pointless death. Throughout all of history whenever oppression is overthrown more oppression takes it place. There is no perfect system, and the one we have is good enough because it's as good as it's gonna get. "Its even ancient! It has always been this way!" You're right it always has been this way, and it always will be this way. These systems all come from human nature and no matter what we do human nature can not and will not change. " We are always afraid of something even in our "safe" lives. That fear is what's painted in the sky.. Its the wound left unhealed and the shadows left un checked! It is all of our responsibilities! " That's true, we are all naturally afraid, jealous and envious. Why? We're scared and we need to learn to live our lives while leaving the fear behind in the dust, because if we spend our whole lives worshiping and catering to that fear are we really living at all? Fear has motivated a lot of our actions throughout history, rebellion being one of them. The rebellion you propose itself is rooted in fear and rage towards authority. With that being the force driving a rebellion it is doomed to fail and cause history to repeat itself. Until you can leave your fear behind you your ideas are doomed to fail. " Not just a select few of power hungry idiots that are leading us off a cliff!" Maybe it's not just the 1% that's driving us to our destruction, maybe it's all humans. If left unchecked humans engage in self destructive behavior deeply rooted in fear. Maybe all humans are the "Power hungry idiots that are leading us off a cliff". Why? Because we're scared and authority is here to protect us from our self destructive behavior and to stop us from running off the cliff. We need authority so we can save society and more importantly ourselves.