My belief has been that people are inherently good - a sort of 'look for the good in people’, overlooking the obvious evils and bad vibes that are rife.
Part of this has had to do with seeing everyone as a mere victim - to circumstances, to their psychologies, to their upbringings. Ultimately helpless. Within this view, it is impossible to change and we just have to accept how things are. It conveniently lets everyone off the hook, including myself, for falling short. It means that any change must come from ‘outside,’ essentially from a god.
Everyone gets to be ‘good,’ (a mere victim) at the cost of being helpless. The effect of considering others and myself helpless is irresponsibility - a failure to take the necessary steps to change whatever it is that’s happening. If we are just victims, there’s no point in even trying, it’s better to just accept what’s happening.
However, that isn’t the case. We do have the ability to appraise our situations and make different choices, to experiment, to dare to try something different.
As such, the entire narrative falls apart: I am not a victim, because I can do something different. And neither are anyone else. If they cared to, they could do differently. Everyone is only being the way they are because they’re too afraid to do anything different.
And that is the evil present in me. That’s what I allow.