We are naturally vicious (vice prone), and depraved. What this entails is our being selfless naturally. Virtue is a godly, unnatural state, aligned with the Creator of nature, therefore outside of nature.
To be virtuous is to pursue self-interest first and directly, and then other-interest secondarily and indiretly.
We must be taught to be virtuous because the virtuous part of our natures is small and requires strengthening and nurturing and lots of practice and discipline, so that we become mostly good-natured as a person.
We must not live in a natural state of passions, instincts and unconstrained desires, a state of terrible existing where the law of the jungle presides--eat or be eaten. We need civilization, good customs, good training and morals to humanize us, and drive the beast back down and inside.
God favors the city and the realm of humans over the natural world, the world of Satan and Lera. Immorality is natural and innate, but morality is fabricated, to be in line with natural law, and taught to the young to tame their savage selfless hearts.
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