Sunday, April 12, 2009
A Flawed Humanity
In the second chapter the author discusses the idea of humans being innately evil. He discussed this topic with Tony the Beat Poet. I have always been one to advocate that everyone has an innate good in them, that yes, we are capable of evil things, but that alone does not make us evil.While reading this chapter, it changed my perspective of this idea. As he explained it further on in the chapter, we, as human beings are flawed. These flaws are what make us capable of doing such atrocities to each other. The example he gave was that each and every one of us had to be taught right from wrong at a young age. Which leads to an interesting question. What kind of beings would we turn out to be if we were not taught right from wrong? Would the world be more chaotic than it already is? Ultimately, I have come to conclude as Miller states it, "that the soul of man is perverse." (p.18)
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I wrote a little bit about this in my paper, and Shane Claiborne talks about it too. He says although we know we have the power to hurt and destroy, we also have a deep capacity to love others. We can't let our power to hurt others surpass our capacity to love.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely think we humans are so flawed. Some people think we are born perfect, and are messed up by this world. I think that is wrong, I think we come in with a sin nature, and this world helps us define who we want to be. I love what daniel said about ot letting our capacity to hurt surpass our capactity to love, I think it is a really true statement, that we need to make a choice to love others.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that humans are definitely capable of doing bad things. It is really scary to think about what our world would be like if we as humans were not taught right form wrong at a young age.
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