Emrys Westacott asks a probing question his essay, published In Philosophy Now. Westacott believes that constant surveillance is better than we making immoral choices. I disagree with Westacott's theory, because of the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Being curious, Utopia does not exist.
The book One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey is a story about a patients in a mental asylum. Constant surveillance by the team of nurses and workers at the ward tries to keep their patients mentally and physically stable, therefore keeping morally stable. The health of these patients became worse over the years because of constant surveillance. The patients became zombies, there was no freedom and were not allowed to make choices for themselves. The men were dying and were in need of a savior. A new patient enrolled at the ward, his acts were completely immoral. His presence gave the ward and the patients a new life, a life had been waiting for. An immoral life not held together by rules.
Being moral towards ourselves and others is a nice manner of living, but the best. We have to be immoral, we cannot be under surveillance all the time. We cannot show the world what we are capable of until we let go.
We can only educate and understand by being curious all the time. We learn from our mistakes, and know what the difference is between good and bad. Everyone has memories of action they did, that they would not do again; whether it may be playing with fire or stealing. Since we know the outcome we chose not to do it again. That action makes us moral. If we were held to together by rules, that never allowed us to chose what we would want, we would never be able to control our curiousness, we may become afraid, and that fear may control us Some once said, that we have to master our fears, only then will we have the courage to act.
Over the years, human have tired looking for a Utopian society. Some have found some, but those entire place have changed because of greed, and being moral was too main stream. Change is needed to prosper. Utopian societies does exist humans are not made to be moral. We call ourselves the most advanced and intellectual organism on earth. We did not achieve it by being moral, but by being immoral. It is in our blood. Greed has always made us make the wrong choices as individual, but has helped others prosper. Drugs for example, greed brought to us, it is harmful to an individual, but in Mexico, the economy is prospering because of the drug trade. Without that variable, Mexican economy would fall if there was surveillance and everyone had to be moral. Utopian societies never exist because of this.
Westacott's theory is invalid, because of the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Being curious, and Utopia does not exist.
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