Can science explain the soul, the death? That is why we need religion.” Thus proceeds much of religious preaching, deceitfully camouflaging that it doesn’t explain them either. Your non-answer is my answer!
No other desire is ruining human race as much as sex. Mankind must find ways to either overcome it or satisfy it to be able to utilize its creative potential constructively.
Standing upright in all adversities? Wouldn’t one drown in the river, for instance?
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
Street Corner ‘Computer Education’: Relegating potentially good plumbers into positively bad programmers.
No one is above taking bribe. And most certainly no one above giving it. Only the labels, the form and the manner change.
More people fail than they succeed. Yet few are trained to cope with failure in good grace, thus compounding the misery.
A person’s stature ought to be measured not by how tall he has grown but by how often he has had to bow, and how low, in the process.
Science is steadily heading towards creating machine-men, having already put the man in machine and the machine in man.
It’s human to fear isolation for your convictions. But remember that every so often a single Galileo or Darwin had truth on the whole planet.