Domesticating Evil
After watching How to Train your Dragon , two things come to mind. First, that evil exists. Second, that humans inflict it. Evil, being the abstract concept, cannot exist without a body. You cannot point at it, you cannot see it. But you can see its effects of its infliction through that specific body. Nonetheless, it was clearly humans who enforced evil through the dragons, therefore causing them to act in such manner. It is all within the human imagination in which becomes their reality. According to Freud, the human mind has created two supernatural beings. Supernatural because it is what humans seek to be: God, containing the best parts of humans: Love, Goodness, Forgiveness, and Satan, being the worst of humans: Blood, Hate, Evil. We find in these two beings extreme differences, with each appearing to be on opposite ends of a table. We typically seek to be our best representation, Godly like. And we turn away from the worst parts of us, Satanic ...