Man-Made

I was thinking the other day - if you remind yourself that your morals and ethics are ruled by man-made theories and laws, then those laws and theories become useless, inapplicable. Why should someone else have agency over your life?

Think about it. Everything that is not natural has been created by man. Laws are man-made - who is to say you cannot drive over the speed limit? Sure, the laws of physics suggest that it could prove dangerous in the event of a crash due to the speed you are going, but driving slow and crashing also can prove dangerous.

After years of being obsessed with serial killers and the motives which drive them, I think that I have finally hit the key commonality that they share, that they realise, either subconsciously or consciously, that most things forbidden are man-made. And now that I have come to this realisation, it has become harder for me to justify the things I do or the thoughts that I harbour.

Once you realise that everything is indeed man-made, then everything loses its meaning. When someone creates something, that something is meaningful to them alone, and it takes observers some time before they actually can find a connection with that something - most, though, do not. And that is how I feel about everything. That unless you are the creator of a certain law, a certain moral code, a certain strand of ethic, then it becomes difficult to connect with it, hence why some of us stray.

What defines us as 'humane'? As 'lawful'? As anything, really? Is it right to consider everything as it is? Man-made? Is it fair that most of life loses its meaning because most of what concerns a 'life' is also man-made? What then is justice? What is evil? What is good? And why is it not bad? And why is bad not good? What is bad, essentially? And is it justified by one's opinion or the opinion of many? And if it is the opinion of many then why do they overrule those who do not justify bad in that way? And what of sins? Do we really sin? Are we really punished or is punishment the idea of some person who thinks that scolding someone for performing in a way they do not see fit, is in itself fit?

These are big questions. This is a big concept. I think I have hit the tip of some iceberg. At least those are not man-made.