Watch any beauty pageant and a common theme that one will notice is that a lot of people center on the want for world peace. Many people over the years have debated how to attain just that. Some would say that the secret is to end all wars. Other people would say the key to unlocking world peace would be to end poverty. Thomas More’s work Utopia explores the dynamics of what a perfect world would look like. His work is an ambiguous piece of literature that causes the reader to question if a utopian society is a feasible concept. As well as, provoking them to consider if that type of society would be as enticing as it first seems. Considering the many pros and cons of a society that the dictionary defines as, “a place of ideal perfection
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In utopia there would not be a cost of living because there would be no money. Ultimately, allowing people to spend their time with family, or on education. When people do not have to be concerned with how they are going to afford a house payment, their utilities, and still be able to buy groceries it would allow people to pour their energy into other areas of their lives. More points to what happens in societies where people are fighting to be able to make ends meet, as well as offering a solution. He says, “It would be far more to point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse” (More 606). The absence of a cost of living would not only decrease the stress that citizen’s feel, but also deter crime. Many times people steal and kill just to make ends meet. Even people that claim they could never commit those crimes can find their values compromised when the choice is to feed their kids or not. The lack of a cost of living would diminish poverty and make a much safer …show more content…
Perfection does not exist on the Earth, however, the Utopia that Thomas More describes is one where the pros outweigh the cons. The ideal that a world could exist where money is not what decides the kind of life that a person is able to live. That a place could exist where people do not have to decide whether to pay their water bill or put groceries in their refrigerator, and where all people are equal. True equality is not something that people in the world today know of. The world today is one where people constantly worry about money and everything that goes with it. People murder each other over money, the Utopia that Thomas More talks about is one where none of that can happen because everyone is focused on the more important parts of life, the things that really
In utopia there would not be a cost of living because there would be no money. Ultimately, allowing people to spend their time with family, or on education. When people do not have to be concerned with how they are going to afford a house payment, their utilities, and still be able to buy groceries it would allow people to pour their energy into other areas of their lives. More points to what happens in societies where people are fighting to be able to make ends meet, as well as offering a solution. He says, “It would be far more to point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse” (More 606). The absence of a cost of living would not only decrease the stress that citizen’s feel, but also deter crime. Many times people steal and kill just to make ends meet. Even people that claim they could never commit those crimes can find their values compromised when the choice is to feed their kids or not. The lack of a cost of living would diminish poverty and make a much safer …show more content…
Perfection does not exist on the Earth, however, the Utopia that Thomas More describes is one where the pros outweigh the cons. The ideal that a world could exist where money is not what decides the kind of life that a person is able to live. That a place could exist where people do not have to decide whether to pay their water bill or put groceries in their refrigerator, and where all people are equal. True equality is not something that people in the world today know of. The world today is one where people constantly worry about money and everything that goes with it. People murder each other over money, the Utopia that Thomas More talks about is one where none of that can happen because everyone is focused on the more important parts of life, the things that really