rod03801: Your point is well taken, but I don't see how defending yourself, your family or your property is not crucial or beneficial to a societies survival. In a "perfect world" we would not have to deal with people constantly on the prowl looking to do violence and take what is not theirs. Like it or not we do not live in a perfect world. I might expect to see Ubers argument coming from someone hoping to fool me into believing I have no right to stop him from harming me.. I may be a fool, but I'm not that kind of fool.

I wasn't just blowing smoke when I said (in a previous post) that nothing could live in a 'perfect universe', where all mass and energy is evenly distributed. Nothing works where there is even distribution. Not the economy, not the universe, not anything.

If you think about opposing forces as conflict, then the moon is orbiting the earth precisely because of a conflict.. the moon is trying to fly away and the earth is trying to get the moon to come crashing down on it. The opposing forces keep the moon orbiting the earth, which is highly beneficial for those of us here living on the earth. So conflict in the physical universe is not a bad thing.. that and the fact that everything is NOT evenly distributed works very well for us here living on this earth.

There is another kind of conflict, I don't fully understand it but I have the sense that it too is neccessary if for nothing else then maybe for some higher purpose. And the universe is a staging area for that higher purpose to be worked out.. btw what I believe created that conflict in the first place is free will. The universe doesn't make free will choices, but we do, and that is why we experience a different kind of conflict. It won't always be unresolved, but I think there is a purpose for that conflict and some good will come from it.