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I believe it is human nature to identify and define and categorize everything in their path and assign it a value of good or bad. As infants it’s all about what’s good or bad for me. Then respond accordingly. What seemed good for me when realized carries consequences and might be bad for someone else. We learn sharing: good for both. Or not. We learn greed. Or too much of a good thing we learn hoarding or gluttony. As we get older we apply these things according to want instead of need. We weigh out the consequences and make judgements on good for me bad for them and if we do it anyway what will happen? That is our nature … to assign a value … our specific nature is determined by how we handle the outcome. If we learn from it, we temper our greed with heart. If we see that someone has suffered because of it, we either make amends or shrug it off. We see getting away with it good for me so who cares about them? Or it’s good for them, I will do without. That is the extent of human nature to define and judge and respond. If you grow up and intentionally create things that are good for you and bad for others that’s called government.

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