OH God No!! I did not mean we must embrace our dark side..
I mean we cannot deny it either.
I will try to explain..
Right now I have no need to steal a loaf of bread. I have enough money to feed myself.
Because there is no need, my morality will not allow me to steal a loaf a bread, just because, I can.
"Can" is the operative word here.
I can cheat or steal.. even if I don't or won't.
Now.. I have no money .. and I haven't eaten in 3 days and there is loaf of bread there that is not mine.. and I can take it.
My morality is going to change because my need has changed.
Now you can argue that circumstances forced you to step outside your moral comfort zone, and you would be correct.
But comfort is as subjective as morality itself.. and that would actually prove my point.
I can do something. In the right instance, I
will do that something.
That means behavior is not static, but exists on a sliding scale.
More like the Enneagram than MBTI..
A type6 at stage nine ascension, behaves very different than one at, stage one descent.
But they are both me, and both exist at all times, even if they contradict each other.