Is it possible to make man perfect?

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Tassadar
Does the word narcisism ring some bell in your head? 1-0

When we got a big list of names for Spanish class for our, "Spanish name" I picked Narciso, for that very reason!

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Humans are not perfect. Period. Nobody will ever be perfect. Case closed.

 

[Mr. Cackle]

This is like the question:

"Is the glass half empty or half full?"

or

"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

It all depends on your view of the world.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Is it possible to make man perfect?

Unless you're a mad scientist or a mad dictator, you can't be serious asking such a question.

Not only men and women will never be perfect (because perfection means subjectivity), but also, their nature will never change. Those who had massacred 50 million people during WW2 are the same as you and me. It's easier to think they were incarnations of the Devil, but they won't, they weren't different from you, and me.

By the way, Stalin and Hitler, who were part of the mankind I remind you, were both dreaming of a perfect man, who wasn't part of the mankind, him. I like better Churchill or Roosevelt... maybe they were bald and on a wheel chair, but at least, they were human, and truely human, them.

 

[cgannon64]

No, we can never be perfect. People will always make mistakes.

We can certainly get closer than we are today though.

 

[Archer 007]

I dont think so.

 

[Goober]

Originally posted by ainwood
Well, first you need to define what perfect is. But its not much use, because the answer is 'no'. Tastes change. Something that might be perfect one day, won't be the next.

[Start Ramble]

That is exactly what I first thought when I saw this thread. What is perfection? Typically, I like to think of it as everything going the way you want it to be. But that is impossible, isn't it? For any of you who have seen "Bruce Almighty" know what I am talking about, what he tried to grant everyone everything they want all at once. Things go downhill, rapidely. Why was that? Simple. We all have competing dreams of perfection, we all want things that collide. To understand what I mean, I shall give an example: Suppose I want Clark to win the Democratic Election. But then someone else wants Al Sharpton to win the Democratic Nomination. If things were "Perfect", then both of us would get things turning out the way we want, and more then one person would win the Nomination, which just doesn't make sense.

As my example shows, "Perfection" simply does not exist, and if we believe we have achieved it, then we are VERY Naive.

Heck, I know my life is anything BUT perfect. If it were perfect, then I would not be considering dropping Calculus due to my grades . . .

[End Ramble]

(That wasn't a rant, THAT was a ramble . . . Ask my English Teacher)

 

[Sarevok]

not really, I have achieved perfection in many area's but I also have some severely glaring flaws. I am probably at "The height of my power", but it is still flawed.

 

[hawai_74]

everybody can be perfect. When you agree completely with yourself, you are perfect.