If a person wants to live in a good world, he should ACTIVELY do things to make the world better.

Kumquatodor said, "However, one does not need to actively create safety for society in order to stay safe. It is perfectly reasonable to hide until someone creates safety for everyone, or for him to create safety for himself." It is perfectly REASONABLE to hide until someone creates safety for everyone, of for him to create safety for himself. We both know that hiding from society, hiding from the world isn't reasonable. It's silly. We each have to live in the world. We can't run off and live in caves. It's also ludicrous for everyone in society to have to depend on a few "supermen" to fix the world's problems. If you were referring to elected leaders, that's understandable, but even then they can't make everything in our lives perfect. That responsibility lies with us. If we want to live in a kind, gentle, joyous world we have to make it happen. We each have to respect each other, we each have to respect the rules of society and encourage equality and fairness for all people (including minorities), we have to promote the philosophy that every child should receive an excellent education, and we have to promote a culture that sees the error in animalistic, self-absorbed human tendencies.As long as society fails to accomplish any of these, there will be a lot of unhappiness, a lot of envy, and a lot of crime. A culture that established on the philosophy of me-me-me isn't going to be a very happy one. It's going to a very unhappy culture. Sure, some individuals will have it all (and argue that they should have it all - with tax exemptions too). Who knows? You might be one of the lucky few. But in such a culture there's going to be a huge swathe of the population that wont have it all - and guess what? Envy, jealousy, anger, resement will take over - and that's a recipe for dishonesty, combativeness, lawlessness, and corruption. Why support a system that just doesn't care about you anyway?Instead, society needs to promote progress all around. It needs to invest in programs that will make everyone's life better if they at least attempt to put in effort! This maximizes loyalty; it maximizes individual and civic joy! People (as in you and me) need to take the time out of our busy lives (which is lopsided with too much entertainment, internet garbage, and unhealthy extracurricular leisure anyway) to improve the communities around us. If we fail to effect our environments in a positive way - then we deserve that bad world we live in! I believe there are way too many bullies, too many racists, to many people with grudges - certainly to many people who want to hurt others! I don't want to live in that kind of a world. I want a kind, gentle world - so I intend to promote that with my actions, and with the positions I take in these kinds of conversations and debates.I'm part of the world. I contribute to what it is. I want my world to give me good experiences. I therefore need to give others good experiences too if I'm to be reciprocated with what I demand. All people that want a kind, generous world need to think this way too. Failure to do so will only result in a sad, miserable world. Kumquatodor added, "What if people want fairness, equality, etc., but they don't believe that this possible to acheive. Many people would desire utopia, but believe that it would be impossible to achieve, or that the means necessary are unjustifiable." Ultimately we each decide the world we want to live in with our actions and attitudes. Mankind has slowly, maddeningly made gains in the improvement of global life. Some people continue to push that progress forward. Others do not. We each get to decide which a kind of person we want to be in this world. Ultimately that'll be decided by what you want.But remember, there are genuine consequences to everything! Those that live only for themselves have no one to blame but themselves should they fail in their quest.