Meaning: Everything is relative - what one person values, another may think worthless.
Background: This expression originates in antiquity. Whether the Roman poet and
philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus (known as Lucretius) coined the expression in
the first century BC, or merely repeated it, his is the oldest known reference:
"quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum" (what is food for one man may be
bitter poison to others).
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So that's one legit reason for people to disagree and crimes in societies.
Ancient Chinese wisdom tries to contain the situation by divide-and-conquer:
small countries with not many citizens, but the theory's no match for human
wants. It sounds like the Matrix:
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to
be a perfect human world? Where none _suffered_, where
everyone would be.._happy_. It was a disaster. No one would
accept the program, entire crops were lost.
Next to the ideal solution, money seems the most successful story invented so
far in getting people to cooperate.
Meaning: Everything is relative - what one person values, another may think worthless.
Background: This expression originates in antiquity. Whether the Roman poet and
philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus (known as Lucretius) coined the expression in
the first century BC, or merely repeated it, his is the oldest known reference:
"quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum" (what is food for one man may be
bitter poison to others).
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So that's one legit reason for people to disagree and crimes in societies.
Ancient Chinese wisdom tries to contain the situation by divide-and-conquer:
small countries with not many citizens, but the theory's no match for human
wants. It sounds like the Matrix:
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to
be a perfect human world? Where none _suffered_, where
everyone would be.._happy_. It was a disaster. No one would
accept the program, entire crops were lost.
Next to the ideal solution, money seems the most successful story invented so
far in getting people to cooperate.