Sunday, September 13, 2015

Clara McKinley 3

Which came for, the chicken or the egg? This question is just as hard to answer as it is to answer what good vs. evil is. It depends on your logic and your life and your view and just about everything else that can change how you look at a situation. Yes, without a doubt Leah Kleppinger did commit the ultimate "good" in this situation by returning the wallet full of it's cash and cards, but did she commit the only good? To the owner of the wallet yes, anyone who did anything but return the wallet with every fiber they dropped it with is the epitome of all evil, but is this true? Say as I walk down the street and find a wallet full of $4,600 in cash, I chose to remove the cash for other uses and return the wallet full of its cards. Right away most would believe me to be committing an action claimed to be pure evil, but the whole story is not yet told. As I walk away with this newly found $4,600 I think through my mind if it would be better to donate it to Habitat for Humanity or the Program that gives scholarships to Haitian Children. What am I now? To these organization I am the ultimate good, to the owner of the wallet, I am the ultimate evil. But to everyone in between where do I fall? Could you look at someone who just stole $4600 and say they were good, lets hope not, but could you look at someone who just found $4600 and chose to donate it like they were evil, no. And to question it even further, could the owner of the wallet look at me once they knew I donated every penny of the money and tell me I am pure evil. No.
Good and evil and not things you can be pure of. Maybe to one opinion you can be, but to the world it is possible. To the thousands of fans of Harry Potter, he was the ultimate good and Voldemort was the ultimate evil, but to the follows of Voldemort, everything was complete opposite, as Voldemort was just a man standing up for what he saw as right. In all of this the key word is "but"; there is always an opposing idea or circumstance that will not allow one or one's action to be pure evil or pure good. Everything is grey when you look at it from the perspective of every force involved. To and individual an action could be pure good or evil, but average every view out and you get nothing but grey.
As touchy of a subject as it may be, take a look a 9/11. As a citizen of America I could never find myself looking at those that put the attack together as anything but evil, and no one can sway me to think of them as anything else. BUT to those who believe in the same gods as the men who crashed the planes, they were doing pure good. They were killing Americans to please there god, because to them we were pure evil. So, theoretically, when you look at the terrorist attacks of 9/11 even they fall in a grey area when looked at from every view point of the world.
Good vs. Evil is a battle that will never be won unless every person can side to a single, exactly similar view point. Good and evil in reality are not things that exist, but are just opinions that average out to be something in the grey. So in the end, good vs. evil is just grey, and is something that can never truly be black vs. white ,the same way you can never logically explain which came first, the chicken or the egg.

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