“How, exactly, am I narrow-minded? Why look for a supernatural source when the root of all evil evidently lies within the hearts and minds of humans? I do agree with that statement, evil has many faces, but only because we are inherently evil, even innocent ones. I need not blame an external source to rid my conscience of guilt. We are capable of terrible things on our own accord.”
“By excluding supernatural and extranormal sources, you’re rather limiting both yourself and your potential. Men are inherently even because that’s the yetzer hara; yetzer hatov doesn’t develop until many, many years later. And maybe it never full does. Maybe it never really can. You see, I’ve always been under the impression that humans are wicked, disgusting creatures. Vermin. Your beliefs, or lack thereof, are frankly none of my concern, Mr. Wheeler. I’m merely impressing upon you that perhaps you understand that there are more than humans you should be afraid of.”