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If you had the choice to get the cure would you?
Jess
Apr 03, 2013 05:12PM
I have been thinking about this for days now. Whether or not I would get the cure if I had the option and I finally came to the conclusion that I would. I feel like the cure would solve a lot of issues in the world. The only thing I didn't agree with was how it was enforced. I think receiving the cure should be an option not a requirement. If when you turned 18 or even 21 when you are more mature you decide that you don't want it you should be able to leave and move to a city where uncureds live. I agree they should be separate but just because you want to live uncured you shouldn't be punished. So if you had the option would you get it?
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I can't imagine a world without love. That would mean less compassion and more war. That would be like having a kid and not caring if it died. Love is what defines us from any other species known to man. It's what makes us human and helps us grow. I'm sorry if you have experienced something in your life that would make you want to get something like this done. Truly sorry.
The pain that comes from love only makes the joy of it more meaningful. No way do I want the cure. What would be the point of living as an automaton? there would not be any motivation to try anything new or change things in your life.
I would never get the cure. People have to learn and you learn through love. When you love a topic you read more about it, when you love a person you learn more about it. Love is so closely tied with the human out look on life that taking it away will take away the drive to want to learn and do. The cure would make us all cold monsters.
I'd have to say "it depends." If this "cure" were introduced into our world, and I were the person that I am, then no, of course I wouldn't take that cure.
If I were raised in Lena's world, being told everything she'd been told about the horrors of amor deliria nervosa, I imagine I'd be anxious to have the cure, just as she was early on. Unless I were exposed to people and experiences that caused me to question what I'd been taught, I would probably get cured and be relieved. OTOH, If I were exposed to people and experiences that caused me to question what I'd been taught, I imagine I'd resist.
If I were raised in Lena's world, being told everything she'd been told about the horrors of amor deliria nervosa, I imagine I'd be anxious to have the cure, just as she was early on. Unless I were exposed to people and experiences that caused me to question what I'd been taught, I would probably get cured and be relieved. OTOH, If I were exposed to people and experiences that caused me to question what I'd been taught, I imagine I'd resist.
In today's society many people say that they wouldn't want the cure. Still if you think about it the cure is an easy way out. Maybe If I fell in love it would be different, but it would also be different if I lived in that society. I would get the cure, because it was how i would have grown up. Thinking that the cure would help. I guess though that i have had way too many crushes to EVER get the cure in modern society.
HELL NAH!! you would have to kill me first before giving the cure
Love is growth. You grow when you feel pain and expereinced pain. I don't want to be a living zombie. :)) I would rather die being in pain than being someone that will give pain.
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has anybody seen the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with jim carrery and kate winslet? kinda reminds me of that except being cured is worse. I dont think i would ever get to the point where i dont feel anything. ive been married 7 years and we have 2 young kids. its tough but i love him. hes worth the fight.
personally i think i'd have to pass on it. i understand how society could think that it would be the solution to a lot of what's going on in the world - since emotions tend to be the catalyst to a lot of unrest and dispute but there's something to be said about numbing all those emotions and ambitions, and since the cure works on a majority of the population.
NO!!! I want to be able to love, and to be compassionate. The cure would take that away, the people I already love, and the ones I will.
I'm a hopeless romantic, I love that feeling of having butterflies in your stomach and getting all giddy, but I'm also ridiculously insecure and unconfident. Therefore, I'd probably get the cure if I was given the option. It would be safe. It would ensure me a job, and someone to marry (because at this point, it feels like it'll never happen :P), and a family of my own. It ensures me safety and happiness, because I won't know any better. So... yeah, I honestly believe that I would get the cure.
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Apr 04, 2013 10:31PM
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no way! i am a hopeless romantic, so i want to fall in love. yeah, it hurts sometimes, but that's like saying you'll never make friends cuz they could hurt you. taking the risk is what makes love worthwhile
No definitely not, what's the point of living without passion and love? Every thing you did and said would be because its 'logical' and because 'that's what's expected of you'. You're just going through the motions someone else prepared for you.
No. If I had a choice, I would never want to take the cure.
I would not get the cure, but I think it would be good to have separate cities for the people who would like to be cured and that are. So Jessica, I think society should be organized the way you think, but I would want to be in one of the cities without the cure.
I probably would if it were an option rather than forced. Love can sure be a pain =/
If we want to solve world issues with a "cure", let's find one that eliminates religion.
Almost every war in history stems from religion.
Almost every war in history stems from religion.
My answer to this question is (do take this lightly)Hell No! I'm hopelessly romantic so I sooooooo want to fall in love.
I would not want the cure. I want to be able to have feelings and a connection with someone. If i was to get heart broken it would be okay because it would prove I'm human and its part of life.
I would say no to the cure. But it would be tempting. It would be safe, you'd never have your heart broken, feel loss, or sorrow. But those are the things that make us human. They define our very being. Without any of the bad things in life how can you know true happiness?
No. I want to fall in love and not be forced into a relationship with a random guy. I've always wanted to fall in love and I feel like getting the cure would take that away from me.
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