Message in a Bottle

"Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?"

Those are the haunting words written to Superman in Mark Millar's awesome "Superman: Red Son". Those are the words written from Lex Luthor, Superman's arch nemesis, that stopped Superman from taking over the world. Those words stopped communism, it stopped the most powerful being in the world from enslaving the human race, it made Superman fall to his knees and cry. Why?

There's something so simple and yet so deep about that question. If Superman existed and forced peace on Earth. Would it be peace at all? In "Red Son" Superman stopped crime, poverty, starvation, and war. But he didn't take into account individual human rights and freedoms that make us human. For the sake of the entire human race, individuality and privacy and basic human freedoms such as voicing an opinion are taken away. Would you do that?

I'm sure many of you would say no. But I think some of you would say yes. you can put it simply and say that all these little freedoms make us human. allowing to voice our opinions, making a lot of money and spending it on whatever we want. but are all these freedoms really worth the cost? can you stand there and sip your Starbucks while people are begging in the streets? you eat at buffets while kids go hungry every night in the U.S., you buy a new car because your old one doesn't have satellite radio, you buy more clothes because you want to be fashionable. i'm not saying these things are evil, but are they necessary? you say it's not your responsibility or your fault that there are homeless people or hungry kids, but isn't it? isn't it our responsibility as a society, as humans to look out for other humans? it's not easy and convenient, but it's worth it.

would you sacrifice your freedoms to end war, famine, poverty, and crime?

next topic: is freedom doing what you want to do or is it have the choice to do or not to do?