Pros And Cons Of The Perfect Society

My perfect society would be a 100 degree island, with no drama, stress or money issues. In The Giver, they have no feelings, worries or choices. It’s supposed to be “The Perfect Society,” but it’s not. In this novel, limiting choices and feelings caused their society to be a deterioration over our society today, because choices help create who you are as a person and without feelings the world would be bland and boring. By depriving the citizens from choices, the creators of Jonas’s society made their community a deterioration from our world, because choices really do help create who you are as a person. Just think about it for a second, who would you be without choices?.... You wouldn’t have those mistakes that you make that help you learn how you view the world and how they view you. You would never know how life actually is.
Relating to The Giver, without choices they’re
You would feel like a robot, all boring and such. Love and happiness would be meaningless. And if you think about it, how would you like living with random people that don’t feel anything for you or love you?
When I said that he has to live with painful memories, he also has to live with happy memories. The type of memories that make you so happy you wanna cry. Without feelings he would never have those memories. (Lowry, pg.164-165) “we obviously had to make the decision. Even I voted for Gabriel’s release when we had the meeting this afternoon.” They don’t even care or feel anything for the release of a child. Being released in The Giver means that they are gonna get a shot and killed. They don’t even cry when they do it. I wouldn’t like not knowing what I’m doing is wrong. That’s why feelings are so important.
Some people might argue, because they think that feelings suck and