Casimir
The Good Life: Spring 2024
1 min readFeb 1, 2024

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When I read “Xunai on bad human nature”, one paragraph persuaded me into thinking about what we consider “good nature” or “bad nature”. In the first couple of sentences, Xunai claims that “The person who has little longs to have much. The ugly person longs to be beautiful. The poor person longs to be rich.” Based on those sentences, you get the sense that someone wishes to be something someone else is or someone wishes to have or be something someone else has (If that makes sense). But later on in the paragraph, Xunai starts to comeback with “When one is rich, one does not long for wealth” or “When one is noble, one does not longs for more power.” Now when someone does reach that point of “achievement”, they choose to just stop and rest. Which isn’t wrong, but wouldn’t they wish to keep going for more achievable goals? I feel as though when we reach certain point of accomplishment, we don’t continue to increase our work ethic to show that we’re more than capable to complete or achieve something. Then again, that would be considered greed, but it wouldn’t be wrong to show a little more work ethic right? Overall, I feel as though no one is truly considered or placed into “good nature” or “bad nature”. It mainly depends on our decision making and how it might affect us in the long run instead of who we are and how we were raised. — Adonis Jordan.

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