Who We Are

People are essentially good, but there is a temptation to make them even better, to rob them of the capacity to be wrong and to act sometimes in a truly evil way.  There is a potential for the appearance of either aspect.  What gives us value is the tendency to live most often in a direction or with an inclination that makes the occurrence of evil so startling, an exception so out of line with what we have assumed would be.  There is no need to deny our capacity to be the worst of who we can be.  What should instead be guarded against is an inclination to dismiss it, to not note the inclination and downplay the instances of its occurrence.