Great post! I don't believe that good and evil as an example of two extremes, exists other than in our minds to help us categorize and stick together in groups. A kind of primitive way of thinking that has been necessary, but might not be anymore. I also agree with the guy who said that he is everything and nothing at once. I find that many things come down to a paradox that is greater than one of the perspectives being true and the other false.. Everybody could be anything, depending on what opportunities they get in life and which ones they take. At the same time these are all just labels that don't make sense from any other perspective than ours. And of course the nature vs nurture question, what would define us humans without all our collective knowledge and culture? Very interesting thoughts :-)
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Thanks cyoung! I would love to see what humans would be without any collective knowledge and culture. Because that would be real us, right?
It would be a different version of us, like from a parallel reality where we never did any of the things that has happened so far in our evolution :-) That would be an interesting meeting indeed, but kind of frightening to think of also! Somebody in our reality who was never exposed to any cultural influence or collective knowledge would be deprived of what defines a human being according to the rest of the sivilication. That would just be sad I think.
Yeah, it would probably be sad, but yet super interesting! I mean, we could understand what are we and which ideas are fake in our heads.