How did we come to be so bad? Some folks don’t seem to be so bad, some are more consistently bad, and still others appear to be ”rotten to the core.” As the saying goes, “Nobody’s perfect.” Why is that? Is badness contagious? Does the Devil always make us do it? Or do all of us have varying quantities of bad genes?
In the religious circles we’re taught that we can’t help being bad, that we’re born that way. Ironically, they also teach us that our badness destines us for destruction — even though it wasn’t our fault. We were born that way, right?
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What are you free from? Are you free from any authority figures around you? Not likely. Can you do ANYTHING you want (within your ability, of course)? Sure. But expect some of those things to bring responses or consequences.