RE: What If the World Had No Wars, Borders, or Taxes?

The idea of an ideal world has always fascinated us. A place where everyone lives in harmony, every problem has been solved, every disease cured, every conflict erased and every desire fulfilled. At the surface level, it sounds like the ultimate destination for humanity. However, the word "every" is the problem. Humanity needs to differentiate between the need and the desires, not everything is ideal. Even everyone has their own concept of an ideal world. For some, it is a luxurious world; for a patient, it will be healthy life.

You have done justice with the words. A world without challenge will be "lazy". Without obstacles, there is nothing to strive for. This is almost an absolute truth. We, humans, seem to grow because we feel challenged. Removing mountains will result in climbing losing its meaning.

Moreover, challenge, in general sense, is the basic chore of human life, without it, there is no purpose at all. But, there is a problem. We have humans have taken this challenge thing as some sort of exitensial crisis. As an example, climate change is an issue impacting each and every one of us. yet, we continue to focus more on making bombs, missiles, nukes etc. Not just making, the same creature is using it over the same fellow creature.

Main agenda should revolve around, we all being "opponents and not enemies". Just like in football, everyone is literally giving their best to score and win - without killing one another. In this scenario, challenge does exist but in a positive manner. Then, there are STEM fields. Even the world of nukes has positive use i.e. for civillian purposes.

How about being rivals? What if the world adopted that mindset?
At least for now, magine countries competing for the things which truly matters - cleaner energy, an end to (extreme) poverty, or maybe, next scientific breakthrough. Competition is still there, and ambition will still exist. There will be winners and losers. But humanity as a whole would keep moving forward instead of tearing itself apart.

So, I do not dreams of a world without any competition or challenge. I dream of a world where we stop treating one another as enemies and start seeing each other as rivals. We really need to understand the difference between these two terms. An opponent pushes you to become better. An enemy convinces you that one has to fall for other to rise.

And thanks to history, we already know which of those two ideas costs humanity the most.

At the end of the day, we all are the citizens of this world.