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Date Posted: 18:29:20 11/14/00 Tue
Author: Pires01@aol.com
Subject: Everyone Please consider this

Some of us want to suggest that leaving at 18.6 years old might not be a great idea. At 18.6 years old in our society we are barely old enough to drink, and most of us haven't decided in a career or what to do with our lives. Teenagers don't have that much of a strong personality formed yet. They are very naive and can easily be manipulated into taking a wrong path in life. They can easily be influenced by older people having put pressure upon them to make the wrong decisions. They are not wise enough yet to decide what's right for themselves. Most of the great precocious artists and geniuses in our world had guidance from their parents as teenagers. The teenagers in an utopic society where there is no chaos, no conflict, no disease, no crime, no pollution, no drugs, and so on, would be extremely naive to say the least. Forcing teenagers to leave their perfect world to go to a place like New York City for example, might be an extremely shocking and traumatizing experience for a teenager. Some teenagers who move to schools at other countries have bad experiences. For teenagers going by themselves without their parents, from an Utopia would be even worse. Chances are they would for the first time in their lives encounter diseases, feelings of isolation, home sickness, and sadness, peer pressure, and so many other things that could either completely corrupt or destroy them. I don't think that any kind of preparation a teenager has in utopia would be enough. One thing is to go through training knowing you will have a nice meal afterwards, and a good night sleep under a roof where your parents sleep as well. Another thing is to find yourself alone in Manhattan for example, having just come from tropical paradise island. And if they find a mate in our society, how would the mate split from their families, career, and basically their whole lives without telling relatives friends and people they love? Would anybody live this society to go to an Utopic one in those terms with a complete stranger they just met, who would probably sound like a lunatic to anyone? What are the chances that the many teenagers who leave, since all of them have to leave, would find someone like that, who's willing to leave family friends and everything without a trace to go to this Utopia? Realistically speaking. Maybe one with a lot o luck. And what are the chances that this person would be intellectually highly enough to contribute to the Utopia in some way? Very slim. It might take more than 10 years for a person to find the perfect mate. This means that practically there would be no one in their 20's in Aquadiem. The best age to participate in sports competitions by the way. That means all of us would not be in Aquadiem, and Bevington and Pat would've just came back. And the people who just came back, now much older, might have lost all their sense of a perfect world they had for they left as teenagers, and would have to adapt again. If people are "forced" to leave at 18.6, and have to find a mate in this world, then they have no free will. And chances are they would not find a mate and not survive. Realistically speaking. It would also have to be a sad departure from their parents, and might heavily affect the parents emotionally as well, which is not very ideal in an utopia. People are not like Spok in startrek where they don't have emotions. On the contrary, people in aquadiem are very sensitive to nature and music, and therefore emotional people. It just seems to be a very distopic concept in every aspect of it. The virtual reality idea is great. If people take a virtual reality test and decide that this world would be better for them than they have a "choice" to leave, if they are old enough. Because not everyone might have an adventurer spirit to go out. If they decide it is too violent and corrupted etc..., they might decide that they are as happy as they could be in Aquadiem, and not want to ever leave the utopia. Virtual reality could also be some sort of entertainment, for when people want to pretend to be in the other world for a short while, like a video game sort of. But in their reality Aquadiem is the ideal place to stay in. Technology could provide a large library of events from the outside world however and keep aquadiem up to date as to what happens outside which is mostly tragedy anyway, for anyone in aquadiem who wants to know. The American presidential election for one thing would look pathetic to anyone in aquadiem for one thing. What does everyone think? Please reply.

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Re: Everyone Please consider this -- niclas engsall, 18:44:42 11/14/00 Tue
- Re: Everyone Please consider this -- [Politics], 18:46:01 11/14/00 Tue