I said it was a brutal thing.

"No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it - when unpopular

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

It is the creator of wrong; wrong cannot exist until Moral Sense brings it into being

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.