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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Gonative, without the drive that "greed" brings you won't have anyone striveing to build homes, grow food, build elctro dams, creat medicine, fly to space. They would all sit around listlissly, wither and die. Survival is nature's instinctive way to insure species propogation and it's all about greed. You drive away any one else who competes with your ability to survive and only form unions and alliances with those who help your ability to survive.
While I do agree that your utopian culture would be wonderful, it's not practical with how man is built genetically. I do believe there will be a day when that sociaty will exist, but it will be force and destruction that ushures it's arrival.
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Actually for plenty of us greed is not a big motivator at all. We strive to do things because they help others and because we have a desire for knowledge and understanding. Not all of us need to be motivated by personal gain to do great things. It is people like you who are resigned to a world dominated by greed that keeps us from really moving forward. Unable to move beyond base instincts that drive creatures without the ability to understand concepts like compassion and humility. The thing I find quite amusing is that so many of the people like you who claim to be Christians seem to have no concept of what Christ was on about. He certainly wasn't an advocate of greed, materialism or egotism. And yet you of the 'Christian' right seem to idolise such desires and emotions. Typical example of how religion is twisted by those who claim to have faith to suit the lifestyles they wish to lead.