This man drove over a mailbox, flattening it. Then he drove off. The people living in the house were furious, as you might imagine. But the man hadn’t simply driven away; he drove to Home Depot, bought materials, and was back an hour later, completely rebuilding the mailbox.

We’ve been trained in dark imaginings. Most of us, in fact, run directly to them. But they are not deserving of such devotion. If all that humans did were bad things, we’d have devolved into chimpanzees long ago. Humans are not simply bad.

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Next time you find yourself jumping to dark imaginings – and you should definitely keep yourself aware of that tendency – replace it with images like this one… and the other images we post here. Humans are not dark, vile creatures; it’s far more the case that they are confused, overwrought and badly conditioned creatures. And those things are eminently fixable.