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Monday, September 12, 2011

Good? Evil? I Scoff at your silly classifications

Humanity is a really divided thing. Sometimes we can do great in the name of good, like risk our lives needlessly for others, but in other times we can be savage beasts that only seek to better ourselves. What is humanity then, one or the other? I say we are none. The human condition is one of situations. We as a species are greedy, but not necessarily as individuals. The Selfish Gene theory tells us about this, where we seek to save our genes, not necessarily our consciousness. That is the biological aspect. I.E. you sacrifice yourself to save 2 brothers, or 4 first cousins, etc. The creation of a society has altered that. We can do things for the purpose of others in order to better our image that might hurt us immediately but further ourselves in the mind of others. It's all ambiguous. You might bring up certain cases like selfless firefighters who die in the line of duty, but those are exceptions. As a whole, i believe we just do what we do to further our desires, because there's not evil, there's not good, there's greed.

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