Sebastian Junger

But so for me, for example, and I'm assuming for you and most people that I think we probably know, like I don't murder people and rob banks and things like that because I'm afraid of going to jail.

I refrain from doing those things because I don't want to be someone who does those things.

I have my own inner morality about what it means to be a good person, to not be a freaking psychopath.

I mean, I don't want to go to jail either, but you don't need the laws.

You don't need the courts to make me act well in that sense.

So if you need God in order to not rob banks and kill people and rape people, bro, you got a freaking problem.

Right?

You're still a problem even if you don't do those things because you're scared of God.

You're still not a person that I trust.

Yeah.

And I think humans have always struggled with it.

And they've come up with theories that sort of like help them get by.

And some of them even support human dignity.

Some don't.

And here we are with the great, you know, still surrounded by the great mystery.

The great mystery.

And you know what?

Like, let's hear it for the great mystery.

If you think about it.

This thought came to me the other day, like we're in a kind of sweet spot.