Should Humanity be more afraid of the monsters It meets or the Beast that's inside?

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Answer 1

If I train a monkey to type, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, will you let me loophole-answer? No? Darn... I wonder if I can return the monkey...

Although I’ve already been chastised by mild self-mockery, my instinct is to take the route of the hopeless romantic and claim that “self” is everything—the Beast inside should be feared. This is contrary to survival. Evolution demands the sacrifice of mental well-being for physical endurance. Stay alive first, see a shrink later.

But you have asked what “Humanity” should fear, so I ask “What is ‘Humanity’?”. Surely it is not the corporeal. Is it Emotion? Is it Consciousness? I think it is less-easily defined. In my mind, it is related to individuality: conceptualization and choice. Other animals sacrifice themselves for the good of the species, but only Humans will perish and destroy for the sake of an *idea*. We'll fight for religion, for politics, for any discrimination, for all that we loathingly revere. Humans are the ultimate self-deceivers; we are so involved in our personal worlds that “monsters” are not monsters in their own minds.

Nevertheless, to surrender to fear is not valued. Precaution, negotiation, sanctuary, reason, bravery, nobility—these are the true tools of Humanity. When destruction of the monster creates a Beast—if it will cause us to violate our personal ideals or (for lack of a better word) morality, how can we say that we have maintained our “Humanity”?

Man is the Monster. Self-preservation is the Beast.

*Humanity* is a choice to be loyal to the Self, even when faced with Monsters.

Answer 2

Humanity should be more afraid of the monster inside because the monster inside is the one that gets shown to the public.

Very few people have met a monster.

Charles Whitman was the kindest man I had ever known. He was not a monster.

The monster inside is much more frightening than any monster one might find out side.

Yes.

Answer 3

The Beast inside usually creates the monsters outside.
Humanity should be terrified of having such an insidious blind spot to the true self-sabotaging danger. Other than a re-eruption of the Siberian basalts which killed off 99% of all species 250 million years ago, I can think of nothing more omninous.

Answer 4

Mourn the death of innocence....mourn, very quietly!!!

Everyone loses innocence at some point in life...some earlier than the others, and how!!!

The beasts inside are awakened by the monsters we meet in this journey called life. We can only control them with knowledge. But we are also saved sometimes miraculously by the angels we befriend.....the unkown forces.

The first monster this sweet little girl met was the 'lust' in her father which ultimately became instrumental in meeting some more and her own.....

There is a moral in this story of our very own horrible times...

Answer 5

I couldn't dream of an answer equal to Question This.
Yet--the monsters humanity meets HAVE beasts inside, don't they?

Answer 6

The monsters are the insignificantly worlds that human beings create themselves and meet each day of their life of pity. Those worlds can kill them.
The beast is inside of us. That beast is useful when we, human beings, are confronting with surviving chaos and lacks of 'law-ships'.
I would say humanity should be more afraid of the beast.

Answer 7

I think that the monsters with in are the ones that will kill you before anyone else. I've dealt with a lot of horrible people and I've been hurt both physically and emotionally by people, but nothing that I've had to deal with with them can count to some of the games that I've played within my own head.

Answer 8

The monsters it meets. These monsters are the evil, ugly, black hearted people in the world, supernova viruses, cancer causing toxins in the air we breath and put into the ground and mass destructive devices humans make to destroy one another. These monsters are more terrifying than anything we could conjure in our wildest imagination.

Answer 9

The monster is just a prelude to the beast.

Answer 10

Do you mean the "ego," dear? That which is outside mirrors that which is inside each of us individually and collectively. The "false self" sees through the eyes of "separation" --I and other. The moment we separate, we fear. Hidden beasts inside (to use your description) see monsters outside, disguising the projection outward of what is intolerable in one's small self. The other guy is the bad guy--let's destroy him. Self-examination will reveal the masks worn and give the opportunity transcend the illusion. We are all one, in the One, from the One. You and I are only different from one another in our minds. I am Sirius