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And I just so utterly reject this cynicism, because it’s so ugly and boring and *smug.* It’s so pointless. Humans are too terrible to save or be worth saving? Fine. You’re uniquely amazing and everyone else is awful. Go away and be smugly self-congratulating somewhere else.

In reality, humans are a giant tangle of competing impulses and motivations that can be expressed in endless combinations in endless contexts. We are *self-constructing,* able to think about and then act upon the ways we live individually and socially. This is our unique nature as one of many species of animals on earth: to *not* be bound to any particular lifeway but rather to be able to critically analyze and deliberately construct our lifeways.