Brave New World

I just watched a movie on tv that really made me think, called "Brave New World". If you really want a detailed description (besides the one that I'm about to tell you), go here and read about the book that the movie was made about. It's about a world without crime, sadness, pain, poverty, and everything else bad in the world. The only downside (if you really want to call it that) is that there also isn't any love, sadness, very much emotion, children are made in labs, and a few other things.

People are programmed and have their own place in society. You're either an alpha (who is the highest class that has all of the fun), or you're a worker of a few different lower classes. Some people are office workers, some others are for factories, some are for service (like maids). Alpha's are encouraged to have sex with everyone, because if you keep someone all to yourself, it's "antisocial", as they say in the movie. Basically, you aren't ever dating or exclusive with anyone, you're just out to have fun and be happy.

My question to you is: Would you give up love, science, religon, history, and so on- for a perfect world? I certainly would, even if I had to give up a little bit of my free thought process. Even the "Alphas" are programmed to do what they do, being heads of businesses and to party, so it's not like they totally get out of not being able to be programmed to a certain level. I think that it would totally be worth it, to not have to worry about anything ever again.

No crime, no pain, no suffering... don't you think that's worth a little bit of your free will? Never have your heart broken again, don't be sad when someone dies, don't have to worry about being killed or mugged, everyone everywhere getting along perfectly. That would most certainly be worth it, at least to me. This world is flawed in so many ways, who wouldn't change it if they could? You can't get something for nothing, so that trade off seems like a really good thing to me.