(July 21, 2017 at 2:42 pm)Court Jester Wrote: That would make for an extremely boring life.And now we're back to, we need suffering or life would be boring / drab / we'd be robots. Clearly this notion is not confined to fundamentalists.
The problem with the OP scenario isn't that it'd be boring, it's that we wouldn't be free. And that's the conundrum of the human condition: you can try to accelerate dealing with human suffering by being controlling of people's freedom of choice, but then you just replace suffering from stupidity with suffering from authoritarianism, which always ends up being corrupted.
Maybe some alien stepping in would have a different psychology and wouldn't be subject to "absolute power corrupts absolutely" but I don't know. It would probably end up like the Twilight Zone episode where seemingly benevolent aliens put up force fields around each country so there can't be war, show us how to have more effective agriculture, etc., but in the end their book To Serve Man turns out to be a COOKBOOK.
