Destroy Ourselves

It's been almost a year a half. It's been awhile.

It's been a decent year. If an optimist was living my life, they'd say my life was pretty darn good.
But unfortunately, I'm me.

One of my favorite movies is Seven. It portrays the seven deadly sins as accepted flaws in our human behavior.
But whenever I watch the movie, I always wonder what makes anything a flaw? What makes something a sin?
Besides our social norms, what compels us to see envy, sloth, greed, lust, gluttony, wrath, and vanity as a sin? or is it merely the excess of things that makes anything sinful. Like, is okay to be greedy so long as it's not a blatant as say Ken Lay? Can't we all feel good about superficial looks so long as we don't strut around pantyless like Ms. Hilton?

We can't all be good-natured, selfless, fasting, mediating saints. "Sin" is natural. It's a part of our human behavior, natural and nurtured. We all seem to have a built-in mechanism that compels us to partially destroy ourselves, emotionally and physically. It's suprising that more of us don't die of insanity from the contradiction of who we are and who the collective wants us to be.