Why do we have to accept all the rules of the society that we are born into?
You don't have to accept all of them, but pick and choose carefully. Many laws have been changed because people decided to perform acts of "civil disobedience"--meaning they broke a law on purpose, to be arrested, to change the law and in doing so were found not guilty. The Arab Spring was the Arab's way of radically changing their world. In the US it was the overthrow of the British. But here in the US we also do it by electing certain leaders. American's knew how liberal LBJ was when they elected him over Barry Goldwater in 1964. He gave us the Great Society, a huge radical change in civil rights, and in entitlements. But Goldwater himself would have been a radical change, because he wanted to take us back to the time when the Constitution was the most respected law. Now, both Democrats and Republicans often ignore it--and get away with it, depending on who is on the Supreme Court. How does a society rebuild into something it wants to be? As much as we have heard about Benghazi, Libya, watch this CNN video and you will see a happy joyous people who have found freedom and who welcome outsiders. I wish America was as happy. http://www.cnn.com/video/shows/anthony-b...
Why is society so important?
Society is not even important but this is one of the thing(besides culture) that separated us from other animal species.Society can be define as a group of people (related or not) in a same building/area that often takes decisions as a whole.So society is a body of people where every member can have their voice and take part in a major decision making process. Other than these some other importance of society are as follows.The safety/ security of the concerned people. Every time, if an individual is in danger, then the members stands for that individual. Being a member of the same society, they often consider one another as brother/sister.Material/ moral help. A society provides moral and material help to a person/ family in the time of distress.Persuading a common goal. Sometimes a society can be a powerful force to full their needs . eg. If an area has poor road facility, then the member of the society of that area can unite together and ask government to full fill their needs. It is almost impossible by single person.Unity. In todays world it is very necessary to live in a group.Thanks.
Life: Why are we born and why do we die?
We are not born and we don't die,. We are “formed and disintegrated”. What do u think u are made up of? U are made up of elements that are available in the universe.Let me give you an example,.When u cook food u add the ingredients one after another finally that food contains all the ingredientsSimilarly ur body is made up of elements that are available everywhere. Added one by one when u r inside ur moms womb and even after you are born in the form of food.(calcium,iron,water,oxygen,etc.,)Now “what is life?”In a nuclear reactor a neutron is absorbed by a uranium-235 nucleus, turning it briefly into an excited uranium-236 nucleus, with the excitation energy provided by the kinetic energy of the neutron plus the forces that bind the neutron.Similarly your body is also a nuclear reactor,when a sperm hits a ovum(egg) it starts a fission reaction so ur body is formed and the fission process still goes on. New cells are formed everyday as a result of fission reaction and old cells dies.Life is nothing but a continuous energy produced by the fission reaction within you.Remember nuclear reactor can't go on for years because they run out of uranium so the uranium rods have to be changed.Similarly u will get aged and the fission reaction within you stops. U will be finally decomposed.(disintegrated).Now tell me are you a living thing? If your answer is yes you should accept that a nuclear reactor is also a living thing.Theres nothing as living thing , everything in the universe is a “non living thing”.You are just a spontaneous chemical reaction from a child to a elder stage.There's no spirituality nothing else .Its pure science
How does society influence one's behavior?
There are unlimited ways in which society influences behaviour. This can also differ in different cultures. After all we are social creatures who are very much shaped by external factors. Some ways society can influence behaviour includes:- pressures from society may restrict you to doing jobs you may not like, in order to meet societal expectations of success, status, financial stability, gender roles, etc.- society prevents you from committing morally wrong acts. We are never born perfect and each of us have banes. However, due to fear of ostracism/punishment we refrain from committing crimes deemed as wrong by society.- it limits our behaviours, as we fear of being judged. For instance, we don't scratch our buttocks in public even if they're itchy. - it can cause us to lie. In order to meet society's expectations and feel dignified/proud in society, some people lie about their achievements.- it can cause people to fear exposing their character in public. Some homosexuals are afraid to come out for fear of condemnation, etc.
Is the only reason we die, because we accept it as an inevitability?
I don't know that we do accept it. In fact, I would submit that, today and throughout history, a significant part of the energy of individuals and of human civilization has been devoted to the struggle to conquer, or at least stave off, death. (This can be seen reflected not only in our scientific and technologocal endeavors but in religious speculation as well.) We have certainly succeeded in prolonging life and in virtually erasing certain cases of death, and imaginative scientists dare to speculate that it is at least theoretically possible that humans could be made immortal. As we make ever-greater progress in understanding the mechanisms of disease and aging, we may yet get there. If I want to live to see it, however, I suppose I should start taking better care of myself....
Do we live our own lives? Or do we live the life as society dictates?
We face this question all the time during our lives. A lot of our life is dictated by society. But we constantly face the choice of whether to conform or to rebel or be different than expected by society. Often, the real reason we conform is because it's easier, safer, within our comfort zones (we love the comfort of validation) and we don't want to rebel for the sake of rebelling.Most people are too afraid to not conform to society most of the times. For, if you do not conform, you have to face the question of what to do which is not an easy question to answer. You have to have sufficient faith in your ability to chart your own life in order to break away from societal expectations, for if you do not depend on society for validation, you have to depend on yourself, your own good judgement. Seeking validation is ingrained within human psychology, I feel.In summary, I would say our lives are indeed dictated by society most of the time but ocassionally we do find the courage to do something different, to break away from expectations and try to assert our unique identities. Indeed, all our lives, what we do can be called asserting our identity but most of it is within societal norms.
I didn't ask to be born in the first place. Why am I expected to accept life as it is then?
This is Todd Love. He’s a veteran and triple amputee.That’s right. I said triple.His life sucks, as best I can possibly imagine, but here, he isn’t playing the victim card and asking someone else to validate him. He’s competing in a race that challenges most people, just to prove the limits of the human spirit.You were born. You exist. You’re unique and special, and that’s not a compliment. It’s an obligation. No one has the experiences you have, the connections, and the particular viewpoint you were blessed, yes blessed, to have. You were placed here on this earth, whether you asked for it or not, to do something that no one else could do as well as you can, and if you don’t, literally everyone else on the planet is worse off. That’s why you’re expected to deal with whatever suffering life has put you through, which once you step away from yourself for a bit, you’ll probably realize you don’t have it that bad. To pretend you can’t when others who clearly have it worse do is pure and unadulterated victimhood mindset. It’s a horrible state to be in where you curse your own life and look to others to validate you as if it’s anyone else’s job to find purpose for you.It isn’t our job.Look, you think it matters that you never asked to born. I doubt that Todd Love asked to suffer the way he did, but he had a purpose, and probably he never had a clue what it was, but do you know? His purpose was to do what no one else could, to endure one single moment for the benefit of all the rest of us. It wasn’t the moment he lost his limbs. It was the moment this picture was taken. In that moment, millions of people realized that their lives aren’t really that bad afterall, and that whatever they were sulking about no longer mattered.Todd Love had a purpose and one we should all be thankful for. His endurance spelled out clearly to the rest of us:“Your excuses are invalid.”Find your purpose and stop asking the rest of us to find it for you.Liked this? You might also like my YouTube Channel. You can also connect with The War Elephant on Facebook. If you want to help me make more content like this, please visit my Patreon Page to find out more.
What is meant by "Man is born free yet we see him everywhere in chains mean?
This is from Rousseau. It is the first line from the first chapter of his book, 'The Social Contract', in which he attempts to lay out his views of governments and what makes them good or bad. It helps to include the next few sentances, I think: "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. What can make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer." To Rousseau, everyone was born independant and with unlimited opportunities. But also with unlimited risks. This, he thinks, is why people form societies... each person surrenders some freedom willingly in exchange for the greater safety provided, at least from their fellow-man, if not from nature. Here is where many governments take a left turn. Presumably a government enforces the will of the people... but many do not. What is the difference between a bully forcing you to do something and a society forcing you to do something? Arguably very little. If you have no say in the rules, then you are just a victim of them. A slave. You are bound by codes and conventions whether you like them or not. The only good government, therefore, was an almost purely democratic one. One where the people made the laws and everyone had some influence, even against the tyranny of the majority. This also is the answer to the conundrum Rousseau poses in his inttroduction: A master is a greater slave then the slaves he owns because the slaves are free to act in any manner that they can get away with, up to and including killing their master. The master, on the other hand, must create and enforce a social bond or be destroyed. And so, perhaps, it is with every man. We are born with limitless potential, yet, willingly or otherwise, we are shackled by the rules that are placed upon us to ensure the safety of other people. Hope that helps!