Extreme Ways

The extreme things that some men do reveal that of which all men are potentially capable. Extreme sports, body piercing, branding, scarification, murder, torture, and cannibalism, while under normal circumstances are not issues with which we have deal, when situations move out of the normal, men do resort to these extremes. This happens when the likely ramifications drop to unlikely. When the threat of undesired results is minimized, men, unfortunately, sink into depravity and perversion. This is not necessarily a radical diversion from what is normal but a revelation of what is in the heart.

When someone has nearly unlimited power, they will sink to horrible lows. Or, when someone has nearly unlimited wealth, they will then too sink into terrible depravities, in most cases.

In short, what we see in both of these cases is the necessity of authority with actual power. When limitations are practically removed, man's baser nature is revealed. We see this on a small scale in our own lives as well. When we have free time, what do we do?  When we receive an unexpected monetary bonus, how is it spent?

Our use of time and money reveals who we truly are. Of course judgment about whether these uses of time and money are right or wrong depends upon the standard one uses to define right and wrong.