“He was evil but now he’s one of the good guys.” Evil, such a simple tag and yet so difficult to distinguish. Aren’t we all a little bit of both? Whenever I hear my daughter say that during some show, I wonder if I should explain to her that it’s not WHO a person is but what actions he/she take that are good and evil.
I was driving home today from work and someone cut me off. I had an image of pulling the driver out of the car and beating him with a baseball bat. If “it’s the thought that counts” does this make me one of the evil guys? I didn’t actually do it. 😉 I’d rather go with “actions speak louder than words.”
What makes someone evil, anyway? What if someone was found beating another individual with a baseball bat, for example. Does that action automatically make him/her evil? Would it be acceptable, under any circumstances? I have a variety of what-if scenarios that I think about and what I might do. There are moments when I want to get into a bus, run someone over, put it in reverse, run that person over again, put it in drive and run them over again as I drive away. If thoughts were the only distinction between good and evil, I would be in trouble…
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