APAD: One man's meat is another man's poison

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.