This is explained in terms of the book by Miss Prym’s temptation. Though Miss Prym, early on, does think of stealing the gold bar, she does not. One of the reasons is she realizes that she would likely not make it very far with the bar. However, one of her primary reasons for wanting to take the gold bar in the first place is that she doesn’t want people to get hurt, not …show more content…
This follows from the above arguments with little explanation, even with qualification; if good and evil comes down to your choices, then someone cannot be born good or evil. It is for the same reason as why most people are mostly simply people. You must be challenged to be good or evil. Goodness is something that must be strived for, it does not simply come, so those who have not lived cannot yet be judged. It does not come naturally, so humans are not naturally good or evil. The quote from the novel is right in some aspects. People may be good or evil at different times in their life, and they are not good or evil as a collective body. However it is not for the reasons that are implied by the context of the quote and there are better and more concise ways of saying something of greater value. A better phrase with a similar basic meaning would be“Virtue is a habit, when not practiced it is