it never fails to amuse me, people's ignorance towards human nature. like, seriously, do you expect everyone to be all angelic, everything to be rainbows and butterflies?
people use people, its dog-eat-dog world out there! grow the freaking up!
again, I'm not rooting for evil, but please, acknowledge that in human there are good and evil, in Islam, its like, the akal and nafsu. in greek mythology, there are eros and thanatos, human drive towards live and death, respectively. and also, as in yin and yang. all evolving around good vs evil in this life.
so, why should we deny the existence of evil in everyone? so we can live blissfully ignorant? so evil things wont happen if we didnt think about them?
and why should we accept the existence of evil? so we can understand more about human nature, so we know what we're facing, so we know the cause/reason of its existence. so we can avoid the shock (like, omg!! I cant believe he actually used me to get something and when he's done he just threw me away?? omg!! *crushed!!*). thus, we can prepare ourselves. then perhaps, we would know how to face it, avoid it or solve it.
and personally, I think, having "evil" in us doesnt mean it makes us all murderer, traitor or whatever evil being there is. like love, the definition of evil is subjective. sometimes we need to be selfish to protect ourselves. sometimes we need to be stingy to protect ourselves. like, in the anime Fruits Basket, there is the story about the stupid humble traveller who gave his own body parts to be eaten by goblins just because he pitied the hungry goblins. we do not need to be this good/generous, right? too much or too little of something is always not good. almost in everything, moderation is the key.
all in all, its all about a harmonious balance between good and evil, akal and nafsu, eros and thanatos, yin and yang in an ideal life.
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