Lets start this with cars.
Did you know that a car is actually worth less if it is whole? In running condition, a car is worth more to the owner stripped down and sold for parts. Therefore, a car is worth less than the sum of it's parts.
I propose that humans are also less than the sum of their parts, instead of more, as we are told we are.
We humans are a compilation of emotions and energies. We contain in our essences many different personality traits and habbits of self. Humans are never wholely evil, but neither are they perfectly good. There were redeeming qualities to Hitler, (he was a great public speaker) just as the pope has sinned. Our evil inside us cannot fully come into play when the good tempers it, and the good is tarnished by the darkness within. Our personalities are more potent when they are disected. I am a very willful person. I also have great self-control. These traits are at odds with each other. If I didn't have self-control, my willfulness would be exaserbated, and viceverca. There are many examples of this in the average person.
Humans are odd creatures, never wholely ourselves. We are a mash of dissenting traits. These peices of us are more potent than we ourselves ever could be. We are less than the sum of our parts.
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