The Great Moral Achievement

VThe Greater Moral Achievement It occurred to me yesterday, 12/2/25, that if a creature is innately pure goodness, or nearly such, then that intelligent creature, say the fictional elf in Tolkien’s works, would, enjoy incompatibilist free will, which is presupposed, just by possessing rational consciousness, but, that, because her will is naturally so spiritually and morally good, that her nature would overwhelm any choice she made, especially to sin rather than select the virtuous option. In light of God’s or nature’s gift of overwhelming goodness built into the soul of this elf, her freedom of the will and her praiseworthiness for almost always, effortlessly, choosing the moral option, though commendable and desirable, are not really attributes, choices and actions which the elf can take much credit for, for she barely could do otherwise than be and act good, so, in a way, though free and intelligent, she is approximately—though not entirely-a moral robot or automoton. Humans by contrast have a dualistic nature as consciousnesses, life forces and rational animals or beasts, less than half-angel, and 60% beast, which is why I claim that the essence of people is that they are basically but not entirely, hopelessly evil. Since humans too possess rational choice, free will and God-assigned responsibility for their choices, if a human is able to choose to be good most of the time, to build a good will, and live a life of virtue, holiness and decency, I offer that the morally well-done job of the human, that that achievement is morally superior to and more praiseworthy, than the more modest moral successes of Tolkien’s elf. Cosmically, that moral victory in the life of each human agent is substantive for its is expanding God’s kingdom on earth; for the noble elf was from heaven and for heaven, so she is maintaining and administering God’s kingdom as it is, not expanding it as a willing, virtuous human is able to contribute.