Wouldn't We?

“Self-serving, compassionate, logical, and reasonable - maybe they exist only as meanings, and definitions in a variety of dictionaries; all advertising their wares. For if we were self-serving, would we do things to ourselves that we wouldn’t subject others to? For if we were compassionate, wouldn’t we subject the things we do to others, to ourselves too? For if we were logical, wouldn’t we take our time building on facts, and not impulse based consequences? For if we were reasonable, wouldn’t we be able to see, save ourselves, and others from misery; without spending, and spreading our angst; without letting it get in the way of our path, and progress? For if we were self-serving, compassionate, logical, and reasonable then wouldn’t we be Homo Sapiens; human beings, all?” - indefiniteloop.com