The Brutes

Observation and logic tell us that man is both a savage animal and a civil being. History, philosophy, and religion have all agreed that regardless of which side of this nature we choose to develop, or even if we do not choose a side at all, we will still live with this conflict in ourselves. There will be times when we will strive to be civilized and we will lose to brutality, and there will be times when we will try to be brutes but we will loose out to civility. To choose a side does not end the conflict, but rather more nearly stabilizes the nature of the combat so that we can more consistently wage our war against the other side of our opposing nature.