Saturday, September 15, 2012

Subjectivity at its finest (or worst)


I believe good and evil only exist if you want them to. As young children, we are taught what seems to be right, wrong, good, and bad. If you’ve ever encountered someone that you think is completely unreasonable, it’s not because they’re crazy. They’ve just been taught different ideas from you. I think that’s a big thing people get in conflict about. My morals are superior to your morals, you are wrong because I am right, blah blah blah. In my eyes, good and evil can never be absolute because there is simply no way to measure something so varying. All good and all bad exist in this ugly gray cloud of uncertainty and it makes daily life awfully confusing. I don’t think this really relates to the blog, but I typed it all out and there’s no use in deleting all of my beautiful typing.
As I meant to say in the beginning, good and evil are subjective gray spots. Evil is what we define as malicious behavior, good is what we describe as ideal behavior. Everyone is capable of right and wrong, unless you’re just a self-declared existentialist. We see good people do bad things and bad people do good things all of the time.  I believe good people do bad things when they justify the bad as having more benefits than the good. We see this all the time; stealing from a friend’s house, robbing a bank, giving a really ugly to face to someone who hardly did anything wrong to you. Sometimes we do bad things without even realizing it. It’s hard to catch yourself every time you step on a bug or hit a friend a little too roughly. We can do both good and bad things with conscious effort, and often do, but we also do these things unconsciously.
Good and evil don’t have to exist unless you want them to. I want them too, so I’ll say that good must exist for evil to exist. This also answers the question asking if they can be eliminated individually. We all have our set codes of wrong and right, so when we see someone doing something we consider very bad, they’re probably evil in ours. Unless we changed the way we thought, there would be no way to overcome this. Good and evil must exist, just as happy and sad must exist. They are all a part of our wonderful and complex human terminologies. 

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