Discussions of philisophical observations and opinions on basic human life and interactions on a global, cultural and personal level are for the most part meaningless. Atleast from my perspective. The great majority of human endeavor in this world is to find pleasure and avoid pain. Throughtout recorded history and beyond, humans have been harnessed to the plow by more intelligent, ambitious and manipulative individuals using that very principle most successfully employed as religion. With religion you don't even have to count on the motivation of actual pleasure or pain in this life but can convince the majority that the rewards and punishments come in the "afterlife". What genius that was. Humans can be made to withstand nearly any hardship so long as you convince them that as long as they do what they're told, (the right thing), as the good whichever book says, they will be wonderfully blessed...after they're dead. Brilliant!
