Why can't people just live in peace and harmony?

Question

Why can't people just live in peace and harmony?

Answer 1

I know right I wish there were peace and harmony but because of the jealousy and hate there will never be peace and harmony

Answer 2

Long ago and far away before border, fences and wall separated everything from right and wrongs to black white or to say of difference people probably shared what they were meant to and lived in peace and harmony. After the world was separated by boundaries and road blocks as to who can live where and where they may not, laws other than those 10 commandments, were put in place and people appointed leaders they were probably able to have peace and harmony. All those in  power and all those separated by power change what was probably the greatest word to be in. LONG AGO!

Answer 3

Most people do. It's just when someone attempts to impose thier will on you, what can you do?

Answer 4

Because they are divided in their loyalties to two opposing powers and pricipalities.  It is best to get used to this idea, guard yourself from giving unnecessary offense, and also guard yourself from the assaults of the enemy.

Answer 5

As long as prejudice, greed, and envy exists, we cannot have hope for peace and harmony.

Answer 6

Because historically peace and harmony are usually achieved by one of two ways:

- the individual loses all thought of his own future and livelihood and instead is forced to spend all his life working for the collective.  (communism)

- one group kills off all other groups that have a different ideology, one thought = peace (genocide)

Neither way is really appealing.  

The fact is that in our world most societies are well-adjusted, and have no trouble with diverse ideas from multiple cultures or ethnicities.  The vast majority of societies are content to live by their own standards, and live a peaceful/stable existence with other societies.

But marginalized, extremist societies make it their life's work to force their way of life onto other people -- forcing the well-adjusted societies to defend themselves and their own peace and harmony.

Answer 7

Everyone is fallen.