Jan 11, 2007, 02:31 AM
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Human nature, eh? Seems to me that, from what i've gathered skimming over this thread, is that to attempt to apply this good/evil tag to nature is quite impossible. It seems most of you agree. You know, nature being inherently neutral due to the fact it lacks capacity of thought and foresight and, well, everything that pretty much defines us as "human" and "sentient" and all that on the whole.
So,what's the question? What is our nature? I like to believe that we must be something like 50% gray. Right there, flat in the middle of this little dichotomy. That we hold equally the capacity for selfishness and compassion.
This morality thing, this, whatever, good and evil - we are both these things. And we apply them to the decisions and actions we make every little minute of every little day. We adapt to situations, get tugged in one direction sometimes, sometimes in the next.
And when all is said in done, we have this intelligence and memory that allows us to look back at the sum total of our lives and wonder if leans one way or the other and then wonder if it was because of me? or was it just my nature to do so?
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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