Why a Utopia cannot exist.

     The word "utopia" as we said in class represents not only a perfect society, but a society that can never exist. Why is this? People should be able to get along perfectly, right? Well, think about it logically--has there ever been a time within history or even the society that we live in today in which people do not quarrel? The answer is an overwhelming "NO!" A perfect example of this is our government and the shut down that it is still in today. People, no matter how hard we try or how good we think we can be, are not perfect which therefore means that the perfect society cannot exist. Thomas More knew this full well when he was writing this book as well. He knew that it could not exist being that he was a lawyer as well as a Christian. Lawyers deal with people that mess up (that is why there would be no need for them in his utopian society), and a big part of Christianity is that humans are sinful. We cannot be perfect, and that is one reason why we need religion in the first place. More knew that perfection was impossible, yet people still crave it. So one of his goals through this book was not for people to strive for perfection within society, but rather to strive for harmony within society. Strive for the unachievable, and maybe we will reach the achievable.