Poll: Does perfection exist

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Ritter315

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Well, HUMAN perfection is impossible absolutely. Afterall, if we were perfect, we wouldnt have to be BORN at all. We wouldnt have to LEARN at all. We would just exist, knowing everything and being able to do everything. Afterall, if there is always something beter than what we are, than how can be say we are perfect?
 

DanielDeFig

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Perfection is an abstract concept, like a straight line, or a circle. They don't actually exist but they are there to help us mentally aim for something, so we keep improving our lives.
 

captainwolfos

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The minute someone or something is described as 'perfect', someone else will automatically have thought of some random way to improve on it. Which can go either way.

Also, I would say it's a matter of taste.
 

Sparrow

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Nope. Can't think of anything I'd describe as perfect.

Cue a shitload of people saying "love" and "friendship" regardless.
 

Kryzantine

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Now, I'm looking at this from an evolutionary aspect, because this is a problem of adaptation.

I do believe that at some point, we may evolve into something that homo sapiens would consider perfect. The Neanderthals may consider us perfect, for we have permanent settlements. That may be what mattered to them. But we don't look at our permanent settlements in the same way. Actually, that's a bad example, and I should use one of the earlier human species, but I'm in a rush here.

Now, what matters to us is debatable. Some people feel it is the ability to sustain ourselves and our environment at the same time. Others, the ability to co-exist. But I feel that our evolutionary perfection is simple to describe. If we evolved from not using tools, to using tools, to making tools that can do 100% of the work for us, then the next step might as well be implanting tools into our biological systems to make life even easier. Metal hands and pacemakers evolve into biotic limbs. We would look at a cyborg and say that that is our perfection. A rural farmer in China would be amazed that such a being can do all his work, essentially for him. Alternatively, a rural farmer in China from 10,000 years ago would be amazed at a modern rural farmer in China, simply because of adaptation - the physiology of Tibetans and Chinese is particularly interesting, because it has changed noticeably over a long period of time to suit their environments better. But I'm getting off track.

Anyway, so perhaps this cyborg is our idea of perfection. But this cyborg will likely see new problems associated with it, and aspire to achieve something higher. So the answer would be that such perfection is unattainable to humanity as we know it, because humanity as we know it is not yet capable of getting there. And once we get there, what we consider perfect will have changed. So no species is completely capable of reaching its own perfection without evolving into a form that takes that perfection as granted.
 
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krazykidd said:
I hear this all the time : Nobody is perfect. Or in school teachers will tell you ' I can't give you 100% because perfection doesn't exist'.My question to you is , does/can perfection exist.
As long as Scarlett Johansson lives, then the answer is yes, perfection most assuredly does exist.
 

Verlander

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It's objective, and so can exist, although not universally. Therefore the question (and given answers) are flawed. I clicked yes, because to an individual it can.
 

Winthrop

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Perfection can't exist because views of perfection are different. For instance, a perfect person for someone might need to have been a war hero and to other might need to have been a conscientious objector. That said, doing a task correctly could be called perfectly completing it.
 

Nickolai77

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Perfection doesn't exist.

If something is perfect then it would never change, because any change would lead it away from perfection. However, since if we assume the universe won't last forever, then therefore nothing is perfect.
 

Scarim Coral

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Yes although it depend on your view on "perfection". It can be seen like a super model who look flawless (although I guess the flaw is trying to maintain that perfection all the time) or you had seen a excellent piece of designs. I however think perfection more in relation to the phase "it was a perfect day" meaning that day was good and nothing had went wrong at all.
 

GeorgW

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No, it's by definition unattainable. It's subjective, if it's not then it's simply right, not perfect.

Hagenzz said:
Sure. You can draw a perfect circle, for instance.
You can't be serious? A perfect circle is mathematically impossible.
 

GraveeKing

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No. It does not. Give up now. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.
You can never be 'perfect' at anything since no matter what you do you could always be faster, perfect would be saying you can do say - an advanced maths equation instantly. We still have to think about it - hence not perfection.
 

Madara XIII

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standokan said:
I'll leave it to Kurotsuchi the mad scientist from Bleach:

"There is nothing in this world that is truly "perfect". Though it may be a rather large cliché, it is still the truth. It is the ordinary people who look up to "perfection" as an ideal and seek after it. But in truth, what is this idea of "perfection" truly worth? Nothing. Not a single thing. I detest "perfection". To be "perfect" is to be unable to improve any further. There would be no scope for "creation", not a single gap in one's knowledge or one's ability. Do you see now? To true scientists like you and I, "Perfection" is tantamount to "despair". We aspire to reach greater levels of brilliance than ever before, but never, NEVER, to reach perfection. That is the paradox through which we scientists must struggle. Indeed, it is our duty to find pleasure in that struggle. In other words, the second you allowed yourself to spout a ridiculous word like "perfect", in truth, you had already been defeated. That is if you wish to be treated as a scientist."
OMFG YES!!! YES I was Ninja'd by awesomeness. Thank you for bringing up Captain Kurotsuchi's speech when he was fighting Szayel Aporro

Thank you for this man
 

LITE992

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Overall, perfection doesn't exist but when it comes to things like scoring, the maximum score is referred to as a perfect score, but the person who set that score is not perfect.
 

Madara XIII

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Sparrow said:
Nope. Can't think of anything I'd describe as perfect.

Cue a shitload of people saying "love" and "friendship" regardless.
Hehehe I feel ya on that one.