Domesticating Evil

After watching "how to rain your dragon". Two things have come to mind:
1- Evil exsists
2- Humans conflict it

Evil being the abstract concept, cannot exsist without a body. You cannot point at it, you cannot see it. But you can see its effects of inflicting it through that specific body. Nontheless, it was purely humans who enforeced evil through the dragons, therfore causing them to act in such manner. It is all within the human imagination in which becomes their reality. According to Friod, 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 being on the oppisie side of table, we seek to be our best representation, Godly like. And we turn away from the worst parts of us, Satanic like. But with these two beings we find infinite power, the desire to rule, and the hunger to succeed at it. But how could we when we have Satanic like creatures ruling the world with us (being the dragons) when we want to be the "Gods" of our kingdom? It is highly impossible not to assume that the dragons have most likely felt the same way. Because just as we see them as forces of evil, they feel the same way about us. When in all reality, dragons and humans are simply different species managing to survive and reproduce healthy strong offspring. Fom an evolutionary standpoint, some may agree that evil is the byproduct of destructive behaviors. We feel saddness when our house is robbed, and so we label that negative, hurtful and undelightful feeling as the result of an evil act. Something that might aught to be stayed away from. But on the other side of the window, the robber is happy. The feeling of rush and excitement of more wealth. So who wins, the selfish gene? Most likely.

Logically, competing indicates a better chance at winning, a better chance at winning creates the fantasy soon-to-be-reality of more material goods, and more material goods will equal a better life, and with having a better life some individuals may choose not to reproduce as much, because being the selfish humans they are, they do not want to share these goods with too many offspringrelatives. Wheras a person who is coopertive (unsefsih) would always like to give, give, give. So even though the selfish gene is creating that evil, it might as well be over numbered by the people who do not consume that trait. Maybe all scientists would dissagree to this, but I see evil as a trait. Something a human being is biologically born with, and passed on to future generations. And the envireonment only influences that trait to seek its peek. Because the more evil you are, the better well off you become.

The reason for number two (humans conflict it) if dragons and humans lived in different areas. We would not have seen all those battles, there would not even be a movie about this! But because they have lived amoung others who did not resemble them, who did not look like them, then it is justified to hurt them, because inflicting pain on people you don’t like will not make you feel guilty.

I think of evil as a majic trick, "now you see it, now you don’t" type of deal. You can only see it if you show it, if you make it phisycally visible to the human eye, there is no such thing as unseen evil. Because even the evil that lies within the soul will be seen through glares, gestures, and body language. Evil was something that was shown to the humans by the dragons. They did not posses it, for it possesed them, like a trait. We inherent our eye colors and sense of humer from our anscestors, so why wouldn’t we inherent their evil as well? But all it took from that boy was a reach of hand, and a throw of his knife into the river, to let the dragon see that the human did not see him as evil, but as a frightned creature alone in the valley. It was fear that caused the evil. Frightned being tend to cause such mannor, when you are afraid of someone, you show them that youre not by presenting you ruthless personality that seases to get you out of the dilema. Domestication of dragons in the movie was very similar to the way wolves were domesticated thousands of years ago: the least afraid of humas was approached. So if the least afraid of evil could approach, what would it mean?

If we were able to turn wolves into poodles, why wouldn’t we be able to turn bad into good. Artifical selection canot play a big role, considering we cant tell who can get married and who cannot. How would we be able to determine such thing? And who would be the judge of it? Wouldn’t that be evil within it self? Dissming a human from reproducing because the possibiity of containing the evil trait is not an ethical thought. Perhaps sexual selection: people like good people. That sounds like a good idea. But why does it seem to me that we are outnumbered by the bad people out there? Perhaps the greed for the world truly does create a better life for the individual once she/he is exposed to it.

My professor once gave us an example of the indian monkeys, many of these little dudes are crazy. Scientists have always wondered why some of those were just purely insane! And why there were so many of them ounumbering the normal ones. What they first found out that the crazy gene they carry helpes reproduce more succsessfully living offspring into the future genertions. The seoncd interesting thing they found was thet the indian monkeys are biologically related to chinses monekeys, but the weird thing about it is that the Hamalaya mountains are a barrier between them, so what kind of crazy monkey would climb through the Hamalayas to get the other side? Some pretty crazy ones.

My point behind this is that I cant help but wonder wether evil works the same way. Desite it being a horrible thing in society, are the ones who are possessed by evil are genitically more successful in reproduction since evil perhaps could be seen as selfish behavior and good as coopertive? Or is it all just due by chance and I am thinking way too much and should go to bed?

I have no idea. But I do wish I were an evolutionist, it would be an intresting perspective to solve the problem of evil through an evolutionary standpoint.

So even though evil is not a dog nor dragon. Maybe domesticating evil should be the new way to go, since attempting to "solve" the problem of evil isnt working for anyone. The problem with the problem of evil is that it suggests that there is only one problem, also, it suggests that it has a solution. Both claims are false. I have stopped hoping for a solution, but I still hope for change. If we cannot jusify or actualy solve evil, our best bet would be to domesticate it, and by that I mean find the majic tricks that turn evil from the possesor to the possessed. Search for ways to make it under our command, out of he hands of destrucion. Keeping it to a minimum. Grass made the dragons very content. Perhaps a pink leash will do the same for all the evil in the world. Our complex mind are uncapable of seeing the most simplist things right infront of mother nature. We are too wrapped up in our wars, winnings, killings, and glory. If we just stop to look at history, there isnt a time that wasn’t filled with all that bloodshed. And all for what? Is glory really the best thing in the world when it is on the expense of another human being? Another tribe? Another nation?! This is where your selfish gene kicks in and says NO, but thinks yesssss! Now repeat after me, I am a selfish human being :)