How to Create a Utopia:

Step 1: Eliminate free will from the people, essentially creating robots

Step 2: Program the robots to work and live “perfectly”

Step 3: Watch your Utopian society function exactly as you programmed it to

In your new Utopian society, your humans will now get along perfectly. Why? Because you elimated what makes them human; their free will. But now you’re asking, isn’t free will a good thing? No! Of course not! Free will enabled Eve to eat the apple, and free will started the world wars. Free will made Jesus die on the cross, and it’s free will’s fault that you yelled at your sibling yesterday. Free will, unfortunately, is plagued by this nasty thing called human nature. Human nature is your survival instinct to take care of yourself. That’s pretty selfish! It’s okay though, you’re only human.

So you’re gonna tell me now that people are “basically good”. Yeah okay. If people were basically good, we could just ask everyone to put their selfish desires aside and they’d do it. No questions asked. But they don’t. That has literally never happened in all of human history. You tell me of one government that never got corrupted. Tell me about one human being that never made a selfish choice.

Human nature is humanity’s most basic inclinations. Think about it. Has anyone ever taught their child to be bad? Of course not! It takes years of practice to try to teach a child to be polite and obediant. A person will always have a mind of their own, and they are always going to chase selfish desires. It’s humanity’s downfall. You can’t just curb people’s desires without erradicating their free will. They might choose at one point to be generous, but at another to be selfish. However, in a utopia, you just can’t risk that. You can’t have people out there choosing things. That’s when things get out of control. All sensible governments keep things in control.

But now you’re wondering about the good choices? What happens to the good things if we get rid of the bad things? What if on the off chance, these humans make the choice to be generous and compassionate? What if they make the choice to love? Well that is far to risky. As long as people can choose, they will make bad choices. Their motivations will be tainted and the consequences deadly.

So now you get me? Do you see why we need to surpress this free will thing? Well that is if you want a utopia, with humans at least. I mean, humans are predictable. When they have choices, some might choose to give sometimes, but mostly they will take. So why not make it where there is no love and there is no hate? If there are no choices, there are no selfish, violent, or greedy desires.

Oh? So you don’t want a utopia? You say that if there’s no chance for generosity then there’s no point? If there’s no place for love, then you won’t have it? Just know, if you want free will, then you better be ready to put up with human nature and the bad it entails. Fine then, ignore my perfect plan for a perfect society. That is your choice I guess.