If I would be asked "Is there more good or more evil in a human?" I would say that humans are evil, if we stick to this classification of things. We try to be good because it uplifts our sense of oneself as described by the ideal of our society. Society needs to classify things in good & evil because in this way it can differentiate between individual who are useful to it and those who are not.
Human beings like to live in society, it offers numerous advantages, but they will not hesitate to brake its rules when it suites them and most of all when they can not be held responsible for what they have done. In other words, if a tree falls in a forest and is no one there to hear it, it doesn't make a sound.
It is natural behavior, we don't give it importance unless we hear the falling tree and it scratches us in its fall.
It is somehow brilliant and almost artistic the amount and diversity of pain that we, human beings, can inflict on each other.Think about it... we can say that humanity evolved through war. Fear of being killed or the pleasure to kill and steal were the great motivators in the progress of technology.
Those who have only short encounters with the true nature of humanity are lucky, but in my opinion few.
Another interesting aspect of this subject is the way in which we rationalize our actions. An attack towards an individual has in 99% of times a cause and it is more or less justifiable. The amount of social dogma created to justify and prevent such damage is huge. We live in a world in which words by themselves can offend. Looks offend, actions also and all can be (and must be) punished in a way or another.But let's face it even as children we learn (and really fast I must say) that hurting somebody is kinda' fun. People say that kids are mean, no, they are as mean as ourselves but they are not yet fully bound by the rules of society. They act up because they can... and it is fun.
How long ago was the time when we spoke just to share information and not to dissect every tension in the other persons voice or intonation?! Has ever been such a time?! I miss it...
