Aristotle says that Man is a "human animal". Because of this man has "aggression". Yet the level of aggression one has is no matter in judging human action, because we have free will.
This means that no matter how we feel, no matter for what reason- it is our choice to act from this feeling, or with this feeling, to do whatever we wish to try. Man can sublimate his aggression, can channel his aggression, or through transformation can change his aggression.
Therefore it matters not what he feels, but how he acts and what he does. Then his aggression gets: 1) masked through sublimation which buries it; 2) channeled and focused through his power- thus transformed- into a positive endeavour; or 3)through his power dissolved into nothing.
In both the latter cases, a person can possess a "monstrous" aggression throughout all his body and all his thinking- but NOT in his heart. Therefore his aggression can become transformed each and every day into good, into love, or through forgiveness into nothing. It is then invisible in the record of his action, but shows in the intensity and force of his action, through the excellence in performance, and through the intensity of his love for others.
Because this aggression can be changed there is nothing to have fear of, and nothing to hide from others, because it is channeled into good, into love, or into work. Someone like this is just fine with every part of who he is, because it is from our acts towards others that we are judged.
This power of the tranformation of aggression, and suffering, through the power of forgiveness and free will can become a daily healing of the self. Through the transformational power of free will, we can choose to change and perform the behavior of who we want to be, and perform the behavior of what we want to do.
Man can change because Man has the power of transformation. Man has free will.
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