When you sit down and watch the news of an evening you can be quite horrified and shocked by what you see. Murder, rape, war, genocide—what does it all mean? Is there meaning in life, surely all of this devastation cannot be the Meaning Of Life? I often wonder, why, when the whole planet yearns for peace on Earth don’t we have it?
To be fair, there are also the wonderful stories too—the boy who saved a drowning kitten, the sportsmen or women who cooperatively worked together to achieve the same desired outcome for their team. Those stories do make the human situation, or condition stark though. How can we be so loving, kind, gentle and cooperative on one hand and yet hateful, mean and selfish on the other? Are we an inherently evil species or are we good? Are we born innocent and become destructive or is it in our human natures to be bad?