If everything was perfect we would never learn to improve

Was there a perfect life like before the fall of Adam & Eve? Even without defects, Eve, then Adam, who were perfect, still had free will, and misused it! I don’t think its even possible that each and every human being be perfect, because we tend to misuse the gift! However, if we were, what kind of perfect world would emerge? In order to have this perfect world, there could be no birth defects, no disease, and no sin! In short, no battle for the good! Neither could anyone suffer in any way.

If perfection is understood as sense-perfection, then the only way to achieve this perfect world, is to not have free will and the incorporeal mind. The result would be a pre-determined world with no Free Will. And the purpose of such a world? By doing away, mentally at least, with all of these ‘difficulties,’ what would be left? There could be no free will, neither could there be mind, also incorporeal, meant to provide the will with universal concepts meant for a free decision!

Let us start with an example. I have a sweet tooth so if I drink coffee then I will absolutely hate it until it becomes sweet but my friend loves bitter things and so to him a cup of dark and bitter coffee is a sip of perfection. Similarly to a marathon runner the perfect human would be one with inhuman stamina and to a sprinter the perfect human would be one with inhuman speed. And in the latter case one must always take into the insatiable greed of the human nature because even if a sprinter could run at 200 miles a minute his rival will consider the perfect human to run at 201 miles a minute and this loop will never end so you see the only way for the world to be filled with perfect humans is to look at then as a single unit and not as individual beings because the individual can never be perfect for his rivals will always be there but as a whole the species may reach perfection.

Now I would like to point out that the fact that shows that not many people think that the world has something wrong with it, they are either too ignorant or too privileged to see that there are things we can do better at. And so the world can be perfect only through spreading the knowledge about how to do something in a better way. Sterile, without any life at all. Life began as an unlikely, complex set of chemical reactions. It continued because some of the early forms found more energy in eating neighbors than subsisting on inorganic sources: other life forms were more compact sources of both compounds that could be processed for energy, or incorporated into the structures of self.

Changes, mutations, produced diversity over time; occasionally, the outcome was a “fitter” form, one better able to utilize available resources, including a harvest of other forms. These better, fitter forms took more of what was available, reproduced, and eventually became us. Along the way, they fought for they needed, defended what they had, as we still do. If our ancestors, all the way to the beginning of life, did not need, did not want, and did not fight for it, we wouldn’t be her; nothing would, other than the swells of an empty sea, and an even emptier land. The problem for us is this, however.

That the eons of fighting remain with us, and given our proclivity to fight with ever more destructive ways, whether in academia or for power to control, on martial fields or in board rooms, to take and exploit and suborn, whatever it may take to win, is something that has no limits. So if we wish to survive, we must make those limits for ourselves, and learn to control our aggression, our prejudices, our own ineptitude. There will never be a world where "everyone was perfect and had no faults of any kind", except in Platonian conjecture, for such a world could never form, nor continue to survive, as it would have no motivation to do so.

Our need “to have”, whether of imagination or reality, music, equation ,mansion or garden, is what drives us and gives meaning to our existence. But we must find the limits to our acquisitiveness and aggression, to exploitation and waste, or we shall not remain for long. We need more conciliation and peace, but we must also know that ultimate peace is death; our aggression and our faults must be sublimed, or they must consume us. Cheers!