Comments by "Charles Brightman" (@charlesbrightman4237) on "Wealth Inequality: The Good and the Bad" video.

  1. We are individuals in a society of individuals. What is beneficial to an individual, may or may not be beneficial to the larger society. What is beneficial to the larger society, may or may not be beneficial to the individual. Maybe the best solution is when the individual and the larger society both benefit. But, what of those times when a choice has to be made? Who benefits, the individual or the larger society of individuals, and why? There is a natural tension between the individual and the larger society of individuals. But we are apparently individuals in a society of individuals. We have to exist somehow, someway. So, how exactly do we, individually and as a society of individuals, want to exist while we do exist? We do have choices, with all the consequences and ramifications, seen and unseen, of all those choices. Do we want a one for all and all for one society? And how exactly would that work? Do we want everybody is on their own society? And how exactly would that work? Who would watch over you to keep you safe while you sleep? Who builds and maintains the infrastructure that you utilize? Who would operate on your own brain if you needed it, yourself? Face it, we need each other to properly function and have a better life, individually and as a society of individuals. No one individual can do it all in totality. Not even "God". An eternally consciously existent entity (if such an entity actually exists) could never ever personally experience a total cessation of conscious existence. And yet that just happens to be the one very thing we as humans, (as well as many other species), cannot apparently ever escape. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe we consciously die because "God" can't. It's the only way how "God" could experience "conscious death" is by how it is apparently being done. So, one purpose of our conscious existence might just be that we cease to consciously exist one day. But still, how exactly do we, individually and as a society of individuals, want to exist while we do exist? Apparently we have choices with all the consequences of all those collective choices. Then we all apparently die one day from something. Then what in actual reality for the rest of future eternity? What exactly matters into future eternity and to whom does it eternally matter to? "God" alone? and/or "Me" too? and/or "Some other entity or entities"? OR "To no eternally consciously existent entity at all"?
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