Reply #7: I didn't feel that she was evil

[MedleyMisty]

Which is really weird for me because I tend to think that 99.9% of humans are pure unadulterated evil.

But I guess reading her blog made me think about how that's not really true - it's more that they just don't have the tools with which to do good.

Like she's obviously very conformist and not independent minded and can't see past the present and her social group or her ego. Does that make her evil? Certainly the results of it are evil. But (and this realization took, like, twenty years for me to arrive at) she's not doing it intentionally.

I tend to think that people pollute and destroy the planet because they want a lot of the life on it to die. Or that they vote Republican because they like it when people die of easily curable diseases because they don't have health insurance. Basically, I have always assumed that people were capable of seeing the probable consequences of their decisions and made those decisions because they wanted those consequences. And so I looked at the human species and assumed that most of it was unspeakably evil because everyone seemed to want all other life to suffer and die.

I did have some gray areas - like I realize that with our current infrastructure, most Americans do need a car. But still, even if it is a necessary evil why choose the huge gas hog unless you just really hate clean air and a healthy environment and people not getting killed for oil? And even more than that, why fight new infrastructure that would be better for us?

It took over a decade after finding the internet and reading posts and blogs and diaries and seeing what went on behind other people's eyes to realize that actually most of them have no idea of the evil that results from their decisions.

I really don't think that she knows what she's doing. She's just a cog in the death machine that is the human species.