Re: Is fear…
Peace Gora Kala
We have been trying to pin point the root cause for “making humanity immoral” if it so happens that “fear” can drive both to war or away from war then the initial question’s answer must be returned in the negative. Something cannot be the root cause when it can render results that are opposite to the hypothesis.
Another example is that of a righteous ruler who uses wrath to frighten criminals not to do crimes … afraid of the consequences fear can be used for good as well as being an agent for bad.
Also, in the absence of fear and say in the presence of lust would that stop a man from being a rapist? I feel there are many people with overflowing lust yet their fear of consequences keeps them behaving morally. And to qualify Yoda’s statement I would say:
Fear can lead to anger, and anger can lead to hate, and hate can lead to suffering. At each stage there is the option of making the best of the situation. But for some the absence of hate may bring in them a love for evil, the absence of anger may bring in them indifference and dampen their survival instinct, and the absence of fear may bring in them competition for other vices, such as lust, greed, no regard for life.
If you want to know the real answer to what “makes humanity immoral” then I believe the answer is “tadbir” or “self-determination” or “self-direction” or “self-management” - it is the trait of choosing for ourselves that what aught not be chosen - thinking ourselves wiser than the Creator of our design purpose. If we desire not to desire, but to conform to the Will of the Creator then and only then does humanity evade immorality.