Originally Posted by Dark Messiah

Is there anything on Earth nearly as depressing as the idea that man is basically good, all things are according to God's plan, and God can do no wrong? How cynical is it to think that this is what the world looks like when things are going well?


Self-causation is a logical necessity of existence. Free will hinges upon it. Given that any theory attempting to explain human behavior outside of free will is, usually admittedly, untestabled, and therefore irrelevant and victim to Occam's razor, I see nothing wrong with the conclusion: things are this way because we have made them so.