Amid a forest there lived a hermit, without fear of the beasts that dwelt there. Moreover, by granting divine or treat continuously, the holy man understood the language of beasts and could even talk with them. At a time when the hermit rested under a tree, took shelter there for the night, a crow, a dove, a deer and a snake. In the absence of anything else to do and to pass the time, began to discuss the origin of wrong.
- The evil one hunger - said the raven, which was the first to address the issue. When you eat their fill, alights on a branch, quacks everything that comes in wins and things you crave pink. But friends, if for days not a morsel, change the situation and does not seem so fun and beautiful nature. What anxiety! What feels uneasy! It is impossible to have a moment of rest. If you envision a good piece of meat, I pounced on him, blindly. Neither sticks nor stones, nor wolves would be able to make me angry releasing the prey. Many perish as victims of hunger! There is no doubt that hunger is the origin of evil.
The pigeon felt obliged to intervene, only the raven had closed its beak.
- I think that evil does not come from hunger, but of love. If we lived alone, without females, sobrellevaríamos penalties. But alas, we live in couples and love both our partner, we did not find a moment of quiet, always thinking of her "Will you eaten?" We wonder. "Will you have enough shelter?". When it moves away from us, we feel like we lost and torture the idea that a hawk's been torn or that the man made prisoner. We began to look everywhere, with a mad desire, and sometimes we run into death, dying in the claws of birds of prey or in a mesh network. If the partner is gone, you do not eat or drink, do not do more than look and mourn. Die so many among us! You see that all evil comes from love, not hunger.
"No, evil does not come or hunger or love - argued -. snake Evil comes from anger. If we lived quietly, if not independence we searched, then everything would be fine, but when something is arranged differently than as we wish, we snatched and dazzles us all. Just think about one thing: download all our anger in the first encounter. Then, like crazy, whistles and we launched squirm, trying to bite someone. At such times, there is no mercy on anyone bite one to his own father or own mother could eat ourselves, and the furor eventually lost. Undoubtedly, all evil comes from anger.
The deer was not of this opinion.
- No, not of anger or of love or hunger where it comes from evil, but of fear. If it were possible to feel no fear, all would be well. Our legs are light for the race, and body, vigorous. We can defend against a small animal with our horns, and the flight preserves us from large, but it is impossible not to feel fear. Just pops up a branch in the forest or moved a leaf tremble with terror. The heart beats as if to get out of the chest, and started running. Other times, a passing hare, a bird flaps its wings or a branch falls, it makes us believe that we are pursuing a beast, and we shot, perhaps to the place of danger. Sometimes, to avoid a dog, we will give the hunter, sometimes crazed panic, we are without direction and fall off a cliff, where death awaits us. Sleep ready to run, we are always alert, always full of terror. There is no way to enjoy some peace. Hence I conclude that the origin of evil is fear.
hermit finally intervened and said:
- not hunger, love, anger or fear, the source of our ills, but our own nature. She is the one that generates hunger, love, anger and fear.
"The Origin of Evil" - Leo Tolstoy.
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