Nicholasos wrote: Do you truly believe...
"The world works the way it does in hierarchical fashion because that is the best version of reality that can exist."
Because after your explanation it seems you have insinuated that others are more or less worthy depending on their societally deemed applicable abilities..
No not necessarily. It makes for an interesting question and one that has been debated since language began. Why is there suffering in the world? Answers to this range from a God allowing suffering as some sort of greater good we can have no conception of, or that evil was introduced into the world by some unforeseen consequence of free will or that ours is but one machination of an endless multiverse of possibilities.
But I think we are asking ourselves the wrong question. I think we should be asking what would a world look like without suffering? Could such a world even exist? And what about free will. Is it compatible with this sort of world? I think that if a world like this existed it would not have the capability to also contain free will. In that instance reality would be just an automaton playing out a predetermined set of actions and it would render our existence useless. I dont believe the world works this way simply because we exist.
On the other hand if a world existed without suffering but had free will, it would not take long for suffering to be introduced because at some point, individual desire would get in the way and conflict would ensue. I think this is what the tale of the garden of Eden actually teaches, not that a woman brought evil into the world but the idea that a perfect world, defined as a world without suffering, can never exist. It is actually a logical impossibility.
So the only conclusion I can draw from these inferences is that the world we experience is actually the most functional version of reality we can experience and thus perfect given that context. That includes the idea that natural hierarchies exit in nature which drive diversity and ultimately evolution. Because of this, some will benefit differently than others. That is not to say that any one individual or form of life is "better" than another, just different. Being connected by the common bond of creation infers that all life is sacred. But some are just better at certain things than others and that's ok. When we can acknowledge that and live within those parameters unity emerges. Its when we try to force a set of controls to evoke an artificial equality in skill sets and effort that undue suffering emerges.
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