Speaking on His Better Half

It is a normal practice among humans that, even among the more heinous acts, to have codes of conduct. Even when broken or ignored, these codes are still present in their minds. Even if a criminal does not know the exact law being broken, they know that one exists to directly oppose what they are doing. The humans have secular laws that forbid acts and religious laws that forbid intentions. The first is to govern society; the second governs morality. Often, one incurs on the other in primacy. The struggles for primacy between them are not unlike the Magir Council. And humans are thorough creatures, their laws are extensive and exhuastive. If a law or writ does not exist to deal with a situation, they will try to create one, or, occasionally, pretend one exists. Rare is the time they just let a conflict lie unaswered in any form.

Strangely, despite conflict being an everyday occurance, and war a major part of their cultures and history, the humans do have an unusual notion of 'world peace.' They have a naïve and juvenile hope that the whole world might someday drop all their conflicts and get along. While they have many theories on how to go about making the world work together, even the most cynical knows what peace is. The humans are social creatures and it takes a severe amount of trauma and isolation to drive the 'humanity' out of any individual.

Left to their own devices, I think they will find more efficient ways to kill each other and more efficient ways to understand each other. They will explore the stars and they will find more ways to cook an egg than we'll ever know. They will believe in a benevolent creator or a benevolent society or nothing overarching at all, and they will still prosper. They will occasionally be accosted by sweeping pandemics that will thin their numbers and then continue with a stronger, smarter stock. They will live with food shortages and destructive industries. They will continue to have relatively short lives and, yet, they will be meaningful and intense, for even the most mundane among them has more intelligent and coherent faculties than the average mage. For what they lack in magecraft, they have, far greater, in resourcefulness and creativity. - Michael's address to the Divine Council to include humans among the advanced races