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I don't know if this topic has already been done, but here it goes: describe the kind of world you would like to live in, regardless whether it has a chance to happen. The political system, the economic system, the health, education, entertainment, etc.

Be as wild as your imagination could carry you.

Put it another way: if you were a God and decided to go for "Intelligent Design", what kind of a world would you create?

Or, maybe you can tell us about the most desirable world you read about in a science fiction book.

Let's have some fun for a change, exercising our imagination instead of talking about depressing stuff.

Utopia, for me, is the world as it is now with one 'little' change, that being: each and every one minds his own business and keeps his hands to himself.

If everyone (or most) did this: the bulk of problems (between individuals and groups of individuals) would go *poof!*.

I have no expectation such a situation will ever be.

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Utopia, for me, is the world as it is now with one 'little' change, that being: each and every one minds everyone else's business and that we physically touch each other more often.





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It should be a world in which every evil act and every crime gets corrected within five seconds as if by magic.

You kill a person. The dead man gets up.
You steal a pound. The coin moves from your pocket to the owner´s pocket.
You throw a bomb into a building. The bomb does not explode because it takes longer than five seconds but if it does everything gets restored.
A poster posts some outrage. The outrage gets deleted before Rick can even see it.

And the perpetrator is turned into a piece of ice for some time. To cool down and to think about his acts.

"each and every one minds everyone else's business and...we physically touch each other more often"

How to change Henry´s vision of hell into something good ?

Those who want to be touched get as much touching as they want.
Those who want attention and interest in their private affairs get it too.

Those who want to preserve their privacy remain untouched and safe from curiosity.

One where I can get hot dogs and hamburgers!

One without stupid people, especially Americans.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:One without stupid people, especially Americans.

Perhaps you should find a nice rock to live under.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:One without stupid people, especially Americans.

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thedoc wrote:

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:One without stupid people, especially Americans.

Perhaps you should find a nice rock to live under.

I'm sure she already does with tunnel vision to boot!

Ahh, thedoc and Wyman. I keep thinking you are the same poster. Interchangeable (and why is this stupid yank spellchecker telling me that's incorrectly spelt! And that too!)

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:One without stupid people, especially Americans.

Americans are no stupider than the people of other countries.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Ahh, thedoc and Wyman. I keep thinking you are the same poster. Interchanegable (and why is this stupid yank spellchecker telling me that's incorrectly spelt! And that too!)

Anybody who spells "spelled" as "spelt" is an obvious stupid limey who doesn't know shit from Shinola!

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Ahh, thedoc and Wyman. I keep thinking you are the same poster. Interchanegable (and why is this stupid yank spellchecker telling me that's incorrectly spelt! And that too!)

Because it is?