good is evil and evil is good. humanity is justified by equilibrium. animals does not WHY

Very interesting reply. here is my rebutal (not sure how to spell that, lol) "it is because life is harsh and depressing" I agree that life can often be harsh and depressing, but only if you let it get over you. For example, a few months ago, I was feeling very down and depressed. Then I set a challenge to myself; to spend the whole day smiling. I believe it actually worked. My life hasn't gotten better, but I actually manage to appreciate things in a different, better way. I think that life being harsh and depressing is often more a matter of you point of view than your situation. Of course, this is true only to a certain extent, but I hardly think that you are a battered war refugee, or a poor 11 year old kid in Mexico who has no future because he has no job opportunities where he is and he cant cross the border to the USA. And it is completely impossible that you are an ideological dissident in China, a starved peasant from North Korea or a terrified citizen of Iran. So, yes, life can be harsh and depressing. But its all about how you look at it. "humanity is knowledge itself there is no evil in animals but humans are born as such which means there is spiritual beings such as demons and angles or what ever you would like to call them because humanity is the proof of a soul which animals does not have." ---------------------------- deconstruction process ---------------------------- statement 1: "humanity is knowledge itself" agreed. Slugs, deer and salmon have not made any visible scientific breakthroughs as of yet. ______________________________________________________________ statement 2: "there is no evil in animals" Not sure. Animals cant really be said not to have evil or good sides, since none is apparent. If they would be evil, they would go out of their way to harm us. Yet they do not. Most of the time, their actions are justified by logic. An exception is the dolphin, which often goes out of its way to help humans. Yet if we can call the dolphin good, does it mean its opposite also exists? Evil dolphins? In any case, this statement seems correct to my logic. I agree. ______________________________________________________________ statement 3, in opposition to statement 2: "humans are born as such" I do not believe they are. If we were all born evil, how come we have Churchill, Gandhi, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rockefeller, Ford? _______________________________________________________________ deductive sentence, following previous statements: "which means there is spiritual beings such as demons and angles or what ever you would like to call them because humanity is the proof of a soul which animals does not have." deconstruction of argumentation: humans are capable of evil (agreed) --> humans have a soul (agreed) <-> which animals do not possess (half agreed, open for debate) --> \\concluding//: there are spiritual beings such as demons and angels (disagree) I'm afraid I cant understand why the fact that we have a soul means that their must be a spiritual power. Could you please explain? This is interesting. _____________ Self correction _____________ I'm afraid I made some horrendous errors in my previous argument, because of a faulty keyboard. I am going to correct spelling. This part does not influence the rest of the debate. "Several religions do not hint at an afterlife. If it is our nature to be evil, what do you mean by "greedily pleasuring ourselves with kindness " ps: what I meant here was that how can we derive pleasure from kindness if it is our nature to be evil. I believe this should penalise argumentation votes for me.