Two (Or More) Wolves

I assume we've all heard the idea about having two wolves inside of us, one good, one evil, both fighting for control. The winner in this conflict, according to the parable is "the one you feed," but as I've thought about this idea, I've come to the conclusion that it applies to far more than just two "wolves." 

I believe that we can, theoretically, feed or starve any part of our inner selves. We can feed or starve habits, attitudes, and personality traits that, by themselves, are neither good nor evil or that can be good in moderation but would be evil in deficiency or excess. For example, we can make ourselves more or less loyal as a general trait, and whether that loyalty is part of the good wolf or the evil wolf depends largely on who or what we're loyal to and what that loyalty drives us to do.

Each human being has a myriad of habits, attitudes, and traits, and each of them can be fed or starved individually by focusing on them specifically. While our individual life choices and trajectory can be simplified into the categories of good and evil, it can also be far more complex than that. We can work toward specific, personalized goals, rather than a general desire to be more good and less evil.

For the sake of the conceptualizing parable, it seems reasonable to focus on two individual wolves, but it may be slightly more accurate to say that there are whole packs of wolves inside of us, and we can decide, individually, which wolves we starve or feed.