What is the Perfect World

By Chloe Mirams Terrence Bauer

"Consider God's handiwork; who can straighten what He hath made crooked?" - Ecclesiastes 7:13

Introduction

What is Perfection?

• What is perfection?• Who defines perfection? Who has the right

to do that?• Why do we seek perfection?• What does perfection achieve?

What is PerfectionDefinition The highest degree of proficiency, skill, or

excellence, as in some art. A quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.

QuoteTry as hard as we may for perfection, the net

result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness.  We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.  Samuel McChord Crothers

What are the Positives of a perfect future world as depicted in

Gattaca• Why if you could wouldn’t you make a

better life for your child if they were at risk of a disease?

• Gattaca shows that it is a good thing that you can guarantee your child future with out diseases.

• Gattaca shows that we have come such a far way in the future in the way of technology.

What are the Negatives of a perfect future world as depicted

in Gattaca• Why does everyone want to be perfect?• Life would be boring if everyone was

perfect, there would be no jokes, no laughter, no fun in life.

• The people who are perfect don’t want to be perfect and the people who aren’t perfect want to be perfect.

How does Gattaca provide the idea of a perfect world?

• Does it provide us with the idea of the perfect world?

• Is that what the world is going to come to?• Is that what a perfect world is?• What makes Gattaca a perfect world?

What is our idea of a Perfect WorldIn a Perfect World everyone would get along

There would always be a right, but never a wrongIn a Perfect World you would be able to feel love when you entered a roomThere would never be threats of terror and doomIn a Perfect World there would never be violence or blood shedThere would be no worries of waking up only to find you're deadIn a Perfect World there would be no abortion or killing of innocenseThere would be no hasty desicions, only those based on more than common senseIn a Perfect World there would be no painThere would be no separate place needed for the insaneIn a Perfect World there would be no anger or contemptThere would be a feeling of love everywhere you wentIn a Perfect World things would always go the way you want them to goThere would be no surprises, you would already knowBut then you would wake up and realise that none of it's trueThere is no such thing as a perfect world, only me and you

Is it ever ‘right’ to discriminate?

• When has it been right to discriminate?• When did society accept those who

discriminate?• Is our society going to come to a point

where it is alright to discriminate?• What is discrimination?

Is it ever ‘right’ to discriminate?

• What it would be like if it was okay to discriminate?

• Would our world be a better place? Or worse?

Songs, movies, tv shows, books or poems on ‘the perfect world’

• Perfect world – Simple Plan