To ponder the origin of Evil
It approximately takes 12 hours to pass for dawn to become the dusk. and then the shadows will fall. Such a drastic dialectic, one would think, that the same light we cherish bears the darkness that cover us. That in the world one side is in darkness and the other is in light. It seems...so natural that there is both light and darkness at the same time.
It makes one ponder, how easy is it to see a man turn from light to dark? For people to say that he has turned. Is it as simple as that twelve hours from dawn to dusk for a person to decide to turn to evil?
But how do people turn evil? There are as many ways to live in evil, as in to live in good. But, one never understands that evil is never evil. It always hides in the guise of good. Like the wolf among the sheep, wearing the skin of those he had devoured. Evil is something that plagues us all.
Evil arises in people in very simple ways. For one, no one in their right minds would actually go and do something terrible to other people. But Evil really does hide in the guise of good quite literally. Let us take your pranksters in general, they are out to do "good fun" but what do they do to other people to get their laughs? They tease them, hurt them or embarrass them in a variety of ways. While there is a good range for this merciless shtick; there are many times that these "harmless" pranks go too far. These pranksters have probably thought that what they were doing were in "good fun" but these games can progress to something that does hurt people.
A more poignant example. Wars, no one wants war [or at least the majority of people do not like war]. Governments frequently initiate wars for the so-called "good" but which good are they talking about? Wars are in a word, profitable, but only in the short run. If they drag on they become a toll on the state. But I digress, the reason why war is so much an option for a powerful country is that it promotes their good. May it be in the name of an ideology or a displaced sense of justice or even for unity. Blood has been spilled in the name of Goodness for as far back as history can reach....
It makes one ponder, how easy is it to see a man turn from light to dark? For people to say that he has turned. Is it as simple as that twelve hours from dawn to dusk for a person to decide to turn to evil?
But how do people turn evil? There are as many ways to live in evil, as in to live in good. But, one never understands that evil is never evil. It always hides in the guise of good. Like the wolf among the sheep, wearing the skin of those he had devoured. Evil is something that plagues us all.
Evil arises in people in very simple ways. For one, no one in their right minds would actually go and do something terrible to other people. But Evil really does hide in the guise of good quite literally. Let us take your pranksters in general, they are out to do "good fun" but what do they do to other people to get their laughs? They tease them, hurt them or embarrass them in a variety of ways. While there is a good range for this merciless shtick; there are many times that these "harmless" pranks go too far. These pranksters have probably thought that what they were doing were in "good fun" but these games can progress to something that does hurt people.
A more poignant example. Wars, no one wants war [or at least the majority of people do not like war]. Governments frequently initiate wars for the so-called "good" but which good are they talking about? Wars are in a word, profitable, but only in the short run. If they drag on they become a toll on the state. But I digress, the reason why war is so much an option for a powerful country is that it promotes their good. May it be in the name of an ideology or a displaced sense of justice or even for unity. Blood has been spilled in the name of Goodness for as far back as history can reach....