for me, evil is perception, as is good...
There are no absolutes because no matter how one would like to apply society at large to a given issue questioning the good or evil of an action or lack of action, one must in turn look inside to find what the own as their personal truths about it.
That is where trouble steps in, when things are perceived as a collective, it removes the personal accountability for subscribing to group action, ignoring, and later a path to justification of it.
We didn't know, yes it smelled like something out of what I would envision the lakes of fire in hell would be like, but we never spoke, and so forth.
Collateral Damage is another collective acceptance of what many would see as evil if it in fact was their loved ones killed, and yet when it is someone seen as an enemy it *is* socially acceptable and justified by the common statement *it happens in war, we did not cause this war, etc* but does that diminish the fact that this action is a prime example of the double standards society will put into play to be good, opposing evil?
Dresden, the war was over, there was no reason to fire bomb it, were the allies only getting some back?
Was it evil for doing so?
If it was/is in fact evil, was there any real acceptance of responsibility and accountability for it?
The price the NAZI supports must have had to pay for there even being a chance of forgiveness?
Conversely, 9/11 and all those that died, the actions of the terrorists were in fact evil, but no less than a tank firing 50cal machine guns into a crowd of stone throwing kids, or any less oppressive than being pulled over, vehicle searched, person searched and then told to have a nice day, just because you happen to be a black 20 year old male driving a $20,000 - $30,000 car. Which ends up being justified because of perceptions....
perception, hell of a thing ...
Each day we wake up, *we* create whom we will be and what kind of world we will choose to live in. I hope in the near future it will be one where the question of good or evil is nothing more than a discussion of the past in wonder of how it ever took so long to get beyond the need of it...
only my pov... screwy as it is, what would you expect when considering the source
anywho, I'll just read now
