07-29-2006, 07:21 PM
Quote:The raw emotions of the human spirit can not, and should not always be ignored or repressed. It is what makes us both great and terrible as human beings.
Doc,
Sorry, but all I could think of when I read this was the unsubtle "race" distinctions of D&D.
The "yin and yang" that you posit DO seem to justify the KKK, the Nazis, and all manner of other atrocities in the name of the "ongoing enterprise of the human spirit." I don't buy it. Perhaps such movements are the product of the "human spirit", but to my mind, were/had they been tempered by an ounce more of reason, their extremes would have been avoided. First and foremost, they are failures of reason, not part of some "inevitable balance".
But whate'er I be,
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II