Here's something I wrote on the nature of the human condition that I wanted to share here. I tried to add spoilers, but I couldn't so sorry about that.
"I wonder if people really have the capacity to care about one another. Part of me wonders if what I'm about to write is creating a paradox in my own head, but if that's what this reveals then I'll leave that up for you to decide.
I was thinking about my immense sympathy for the mentally disturbed, the people who do things that are considered wrong in the eyes of others. Whether it be the things which people consider taboo, or whether the things that people do really harm another individual.
I was thinking about the self righteousness that people feel, over other people who they perceive to be less respectable than them. People feel that it's good to hate the bad guy, love the good guy, condemn those who do harm to others. That to me seems so flawed, such a damaging and skewed way of thinking, I can't even begin to describe how it troubles me.
You see it in religions, good vs evil, the ultimate archetype of bad, the fictional character satan. I have so much respect for satan, but that's beside the point. Looking at people as simply good and bad, it's so clear as day to me, I feel it in the core of my being; that is a flawed way of thinking, which I believe is the root of human ignorance and prejudice.
Put simply, if you don't understand the reason behind the way a person acts, yet you only condemn their bad deeds, you basically take blind onus in those who are perceived to be right and never understand those who you believe are wrong. This sort of thinking is wrong for so many reasons, but I feel like if why this troubles me is already lost on you, there may be no reason to even list the reasons in the first place.
I wonder what gives people such a myopic perspective. What takes away the compassion for others, gives people that bug eyed self righteous glazed look. When we encounter people who we have a distaste for, we're shocked, we're offended. This is the nature of human beings. Human beings stone, throw tomatoes, we have innate feelings like cringing at other human beings. I believe we're an inherently selfish race of people.
That is part of what i believe causes the problem. Human beings have an innate fight or flight response inside of them. Some human beings are unable to face the things that frighten them right in the face, they feel uncomfortable and afraid. To me, that cowardice and prejudice and ignorance is more disgusting than any crime committed by a serial killer, or any rapist, or any of the weirdest, most outcast people in all of the world.
People simply being people, there shouldn't be a bunch of people with picket signs protesting human nature."
