Winterborn

[Blighter]

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#999999]W[color=#99AA99]e question.

As human beings with a conscience, beings who learn through experience and the raw influx of information we acquire through all of our five senses, it is in our given nature to question. It is our nature to ask for the "Why?", for the motivations behind actions, reactions, inactions.

We can assume that the moths from earlier don't question the "kind" of light-source which, for a fair amount of them, leads to their demise. I know that if I were a moth I would question. "Is that the sun?", "Is that light luring me into a trap?", "Is this light going to lead me to safety?", - or based on the other theory - "Is that another moth?" But that's also assuming I would have the thinking capability and knowledge I currently possess. Then again if I didn't, I probably wouldn't question and just head for the light and end up with my wings burned and torn apart by a dancing flame.

Anyway, I'm not a moth, nor are you, and it's in our nature to question possibly everything. Emphasis on "possibly", as there's a great deal of things we, as a whole species, don't question in general. For example why moths are drawn to flame. Sure, some of us question and want to know the "Why?" behind that, and even though as a whole species we do question a lot, you do have to bear in mind that humanity as we know it is comprised of countless individuals, each of whom only question what they can question.

I'm not saying that not everyone can't question the behavior of moths, but you and I only tend to question what we can perceive with our five senses and deem interesting to us and worthy of questioning in the depths of our cerebral cortices. You could question the behavior of moths just as the countless Entomologists did, for example. You could spend years upon years with research about moths, again and again.

But you don't, and I don't either. It's not in our interest. We don't deem it worthy of the time, the effort, we just plain aren't interested in the behavior of moths.

We don't question a moth's behavior.