Your Dark Side series has me thinking that perhaps this is the price of being human. Our range to excel requires, for balance, an ability to also excel at being bad.
In science fiction, there's a hoary old trick where "if we just reverse the polarity" it saves the day. The astonishing abilities that humans have are, I think, essentially neutral, but have (for lack of better words) a good/evil "polarity". Or perhaps constructive/destructive is a better label. Bottom line, we're powerful AF, and that has consequences. Perhaps the ultimate question is how we deal with that.
Your Dark Side series has me thinking that perhaps this is the price of being human. Our range to excel requires, for balance, an ability to also excel at being bad.
Great insight, what makes us great can also be our greatest flaw.
In science fiction, there's a hoary old trick where "if we just reverse the polarity" it saves the day. The astonishing abilities that humans have are, I think, essentially neutral, but have (for lack of better words) a good/evil "polarity". Or perhaps constructive/destructive is a better label. Bottom line, we're powerful AF, and that has consequences. Perhaps the ultimate question is how we deal with that.