Utopia Flaws
In a world of imperfection, the broken idea of a utopia is simply unobtainable. Though it may be able to come close to a utopia, think about all the separate views people hold. How could a society possibly be able to keep everyone's view accounted for without in effect causing something that then contradicts another person's view? The plain and simple answer is you can’t. In fact, it’s right in the definition; an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. Though utopias attempt to solve many issues (and arguably do), there are some major flaws in doing so. The issues that utopias attempt to correct can be broken down into three main categories; economic, social and government. First, there is the economic issues.
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First off, everyone needs to agree on every decision made by the government and must include everyone. For example, voting would not work due to the fact that one side would lose and things would not be perfect for that side. The system would need to accommodate both conflicting ideas. For example, in order for the utopia to exist, there would need to be no drugs or alcohol. This means someone would want them to be legal and thus would need to be accommodated whilst also needing to accommodate the people who don’t want it in the system. This creates this hard to solve limbo that by solving would be breaking the idea of a utopian government. The only way for it to be perfect would be for there to be no laws at all that way there are no conflicts with the law. This of course means that unless everyone was peaceful (which is against human nature) people would go out and do “illegal” things that are now legal. Now sure, grandma isn’t going to go on a murdering spree but it would cause some people to do illegal things creating a utopia-wide panic. It would be a fight for survival, buildings would be destroyed and no police to turn to. At this point (anarchy) the most violent people would form a government and potentially do this cycle again. This clearly isn’t a utopia and the alternative (strict laws commanding everything) certainly isn’t either. So there is no utopia there
First off, everyone needs to agree on every decision made by the government and must include everyone. For example, voting would not work due to the fact that one side would lose and things would not be perfect for that side. The system would need to accommodate both conflicting ideas. For example, in order for the utopia to exist, there would need to be no drugs or alcohol. This means someone would want them to be legal and thus would need to be accommodated whilst also needing to accommodate the people who don’t want it in the system. This creates this hard to solve limbo that by solving would be breaking the idea of a utopian government. The only way for it to be perfect would be for there to be no laws at all that way there are no conflicts with the law. This of course means that unless everyone was peaceful (which is against human nature) people would go out and do “illegal” things that are now legal. Now sure, grandma isn’t going to go on a murdering spree but it would cause some people to do illegal things creating a utopia-wide panic. It would be a fight for survival, buildings would be destroyed and no police to turn to. At this point (anarchy) the most violent people would form a government and potentially do this cycle again. This clearly isn’t a utopia and the alternative (strict laws commanding everything) certainly isn’t either. So there is no utopia there