Shades of Gray

The trouble with labeling mankind is that it is a label. Trying to put a single sweeping statement across all mankind is like trying to organize the animal kingdom. There is always the platypus that screws you over. There is no single baseline statement you can say about all human beings over all time because there are always the outliers. The only universal truth I know about people is that they need oxygen to live. The truth is that people don't fit into these nice neat little categories and there are situations where the things set in stone turn to sand. This is just life. There simply isn't black and white and those who view the world that way are naive. The world has it's black and white but it is mostly full of the gray. People cannot fit into nice neat little packages because they are people and have their own free will. They have the option of rational thought or blind beliefs. They get to choose how and what they do with their lives. These options are not always the same or far reaching, but they have options all the same. People should be taken as the individuals they are not as a massive group that can be defined in a single sentence. When people stop thinking of others as individuals and start thinking of them as a group bad things happen. Hitler certainly broke down the Jews into a single category and the KKK weren't hanging for peoples individuality. Breaking people down into groups just leads to bigotry and prejudice. If breaking humanity down into small groups is bad then it stands to reason that trying to fit them under one universal umbrella can't lead to anything spectacular. I believe that you should take each person one at a time. There is no way to overwhelmingly prove that people are mostly bad or mostly good. There is no computer that can diagnose the human condition. There is only the way you feel about the people you know personally. I don't know all of humanity so I don't think I am fit to judge it. There are people that are bad and people that are good but the majority of people are somewhere in the middle.