How can people trust a piece of paper ?

Question

people on here seem to have a lot of faith in NATO etc , or a bill of rights etc , my question is how can you , really are people so naive

Answer 1

How can people trust a piece of paper?

The first thing you have to realize is that it is not the paper that people trust in.  It is the ideas which happen to be printed on that paper.  I have to ask how you have come to this conclusion and why you feel that you are somehow above it all.  I am going to take a leap of faith and guess that you don't just wander through life aimlessly.  You have emotions, desires and urges, just like the rest of us, so you must have values and principles that you live your life by.  It would be impossible not to.  Are you not trusting in those values and principles to guide you safely and happily through life and to provide a future for your children?  The only difference between you and these other people is that these other people have written down their values and principles.  Following your logic, wouldn't that make you naive as well?  I could see how you may believe they are misguided or even wrong, but naive?    

Answer 2

The modern world is organized through institutions and the pieces of paper  are the agreements between  people and institutions about their limits and power.  It is not just international organizations and governments but schools, banks,  corporations and even how we pay our bills that rely on pieces of paper.

Answer 3

their is signatures on it but someone could just burn it so i dont know

Answer 4

Faith and trust in a piece of paper? You mean, like, the Bible?

Answer 5

Depends on what's on the piece of paper doesn't it? The piece of paper is just that...but are meraly suggesting the Magna Carta, The United States Constitution...are merely bits of paper?

That's about as juvenile an argument as I've heard for a long time.

Answer 6

You can't. What's written on a piece of paper means nothing unless people believe in it and are willing to support and live by it.