We humans are funny little creatures.  

We take in and process information our entire lives, by touching and tasting and feeling &c; 

We form ideas and opinions about all or nearly all of this information; 

We decided that our own ideas are trustworthy and right and well-justified;

But most of all, we don't really consider most of this, most of the time.

I digress.

Hi, this is me; I've started a blog; this is a thing now.

I'll be posting words of all sorts, throwing a dictionary at a wall and hoping to see if anything will stick. 

Thank you for reading or not reading or whatever else it is you people do.

Now, let's get down to the real deep funky festering existential questions that linger in the heartbeats of many, because those are fun.

Are human beings good or bad? 

People have been arguing about this idea for hundreds and hundreds of years; I will not presume to tell you an answer, but try thinking about this.

Everything that you have ever perceived is human-centric. This may seem obvious, but think about it. Everything you've seen, you processed it as a human, everything you've ever thought you have processed as a human, every idea, emotion, thought, epiphany, pain and pleasure is distinctly and irreversibly human. 

Because we are humans.

The idea is a simple one, sure, but let us perhaps change its direction:

We CANNOT think, feel, or otherwise perceive anything in a way that is not human.

And so, every thought, idea, feeling or emotion, every perceived morality, reality or pattern, is a direct result of our humanity. 

Now, ideas can't come from nowhere. They have to be a result of some thing we have experienced, or someone else has experienced. 

The idea of "That man is a bad man" cannot happen if we have not, over the course of our lives, seen and learned about men, and "good" and "bad" and good things and bad things and good men and bad men.

Every idea is a sort of hodgepodgery of other ideas, we define these sorts of things by slowly narrowing down how specifically we categorize them. We can have "good" without "good man" but not vice versa. 

Moving on along, though, these ideas, these abstractions we have for everything we perceive (the ideas of God, the idea of humans, the idea of sky, the idea of evil, the idea of a tree, the idea of stealing, the idea of morality &c) are directly based on our collective experiences as humans.

We cannot have an idea of something without first having knowledge of some sort about that something.

Now, words are the tools we as humans use to manipulate and convey ideas. 

We cannot very easily pass the entire sensation of "the idea of a tree" non-verbally, so we invented language.

But every word is a result of one or many ideas that existed before it, and these ideas are results of the things we see and think and touch as human beings.

So, words are, carrying this whole thing through, a direct representation of who we are; of what it means to be human.

So when we have words like "good" and "bad", we must naturally be both good and bad.

Because if we had no experience with the idea of "good" or "bad"; if there had not been some person at some point in our ancestral past who had experienced a person being bad, or a person being good, the ideas that form the foundations of the words would not exist.

We are everything we have a word for (well nearly everything. We cannot very well be Killer Whales or Gravity).

Since we have a morality, an idea of what it means to be virtuous or villainous, to be a saint or sinner, to be good or evil, we must have experienced all of these things. 

Humans are naturally good, and virtuous, and saintly, and holy, 

-but-

Humans are naturally evil, and villainous, and sinners, and unholy.

There are some things that we are not,

But we will never experience these ideas, because we are not them,

So we can never have the words to describe these ideas.

We are stuck, you see. 

We cannot define ourselves properly, because we are ourselves;

You cannot use a mirror to see itself,

You can only hold it next to another mirror, and see infinity.