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In our discussion over Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, our class got onto to the subject of the part evil plays in human nature. It was interesting to hear how some of us believed that "we", humans, are born evil. This got me thinking about Thomas Hobbes who believed that without a stable government and society that humans in their natural state would be in a constant state of war aganist each other for survival. This viewpoint I feel is seen in the novel in that the government and society have fallen so drastically that it has lost its ability to enforce order. My question is when this happens why do we go aganist each other instead of coming together to fix the problem? Is it human nature to be egocentric and not care about the welfare of others? Are we at our basic core self-serving? Are we evil?