POST 3 Good Versus Evil Mason Saunders

The idea of good and evil as absolute as the colors black and white is preposterous. To even label individuals as only good or only evil is equally as ridiculous. Like many other things in this world, the concept of good, evil and what defines good and evil can be incredibly grey and confusing. A good theoretical example of this grey area is be a moral dilemma, something that doesn't have a clear route out without passing through the wrong. For example, say that you are on a lifeboat because your cruise ship just exploded. There are definitely not enough lifeboats to support everyone and the water is too cold for anyone to survive longer than a few hours. You need to stay alive to take care of your 4 children and wife who are currently not in the best living situation. A small boy swims up to you and requests room on the boat but you cannot find any at all seeing as you are already halfway out of the boat and are barely hanging on yourself. You have only two choices, A - you can give the boy your spot and than leave your family to starve, or B - you can save yourself and watch as the boy drowns. Either route is terrible and there is no good alternative. This is a grey situation, in which you must ask yourself if you are truly evil if you do either of those things, or are you simply saving one party the greater pain. In the end, good and evil is a spectrum which is not clearly contoured and the best way to classify the relationship is as relative, relative to the situation, time, place, people, and circumstances.