Humans invent structures that fashion the world in ways that try to make sense of it. That order it and align people’s thinking, so everyone is worshipping the same god, honoring the same values, and obeying the same laws.
This is all manufactured. There’s nothing real in any of it, but we say it’s real so that we can convince others it is. So they’ll buy into. Embrace and make it their own.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with this. We’ve been actively creating reality since man first set foot on Earth. It reflects our ability to imagine, and to see a world quite different than the one we live in.
But just because we say or think that murder is wrong, or we shouldn’t steal, and even when we attribute these laws to a higher power, for many it makes no difference. Even the humans that assure us we better do right else we’ll go to jail, or maybe even to hell, these laws are arbitrary and often forgotten when passion takes over their senses.
And while it may make sense to obey laws, each and every human decides what’s right and wrong. We filter through all we’ve learned and decide what to keep, and what to toss away.
It’s free will at its finest, and there’s no way to escape it. It consumes us, tears at the fabric of our beings, taunts us to do something other than what the consensus asks us to do.
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