"all are insane but me and thee, and I'm not so sure about thee"

[ineffabelle]

"So there is a pretty easy reply to people who say that man is innately evil, that without a control apparatus people would just go around killing and stealing, and so on and so forth, the reply being “who would you kill first?” Of course they do not want to kill anyone, and they will say so, although they are convinced that the masses harbour in their hearts a desire to kill.

So from a logical point of view, we have a paradox which leads to three possible solutions: either the answerer is somehow special and has escaped the evilness of human nature, or he is lying to himself and really does want to kill, or he is wrong in his basic belief. "

- Francois Tremblay

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[lassiter.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This is something which I instinctively have grasped for a good while now, but had never seen it put into words so succinctly.