No perfect being would be modeled after a human. We are too flawed. We are lethargic and greedy and prideful and born with a primal need to be the top and kill. No perfect being would have these traits that so drive us. This "Moral Sense" that allows us to justify harm to the weak for our own standing when it's ourselves and frown upon others for the same. Creatures far less "intelligent" than ourselves recognize a stronger creature and respect it. We look at anything more powerful and wish to destroy it. As though an existence higher than us individually has no right to exist at all. We kill and kill and kill to cause change and when we reach the change we kill more. We take more than we need because we can. We don't hunt out of necessity. We don't so far as live out of necessity. We feel that because we have a mind we are entitled to these things; even if they must be taken from others who do need them. No perfect being would look at a dirty child as lesser than a man in a suit, and yet this is all we do. We are so far from perfect. We are an embodiment of environmental destruction and yet we feel so much greater than the ants we crush beneath our feet on the climb to the top where nothing awaits us but sorrow. No, we are not perfect. In many ways because animals don't feel more perfect than us, they are. A perfect being would not be based off a human. Maybe a wolf, an elephant, a fish, but not a human. In fact, quite possibly the opposite of a human.
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We as Humans
PoetryGolden threads from a dirt human. Poetry and philosophy that I write for me and share for you. (Cover art by Gabriel Levesque/@oskadesign)
