Mastery of the Dark Side of Men

 

Regarding the dark side of men, all men have the potential to be extremely evil.  

Men who have a loving, supporting wife, who are in healthy families, probably don't have to deal with their dark sides too often.  However, if these same men joined the military and went off to fight in a war, these same men would have to deal with their dark sides much more, as toxic circumstances make the inner shadow much more powerful.

There have been instances when men fighting a war invade an innocent village and kill the men and rape the women, and even rape the children, and then kill the women and the children.  These same men who were model citizens of society with their loving wives at home... one would never suspect these men to be capable of such atrocities.  Yet, history is full of genocides that have been carried out by men who would otherwise not be thought to be remotely capable of such atrocities.

It's important to realize that all men, regardless of how good they may appear to act, are capable of committing the most horrific atrocities if placed under the right conditions.  All men have a beast inside.  

The key is to not be ashamed of having an inner beast, but instead to be aware of this inner beast, and discipline this inner beast, to be a good man in both stable and unstable circumstances.  Jordan Peterson explains this in the following video:

Jordan Peterson - A Harmless Man Is Not A Good Man

 

(Women of course have a dark side as well, but the writer of this article is male.  Women could give perspectives on this article and/or write an article about the dark side of women.)