Come to the dark side, Luke

When you think about it, good and evil are just words we created. In our minds, “good” is associated with helping others and carrying out unselfish deeds. Similarly, our concept of “evil” relates directly to being greedy and causing harm to people. These definitions of “good” and “evil” are immensely subjective.

For instance, most people perceive Adolf Hitler as an evil man, but in his mind, he was helping solve a problem by purifying the world of non-German and Aryan people. We, as human beings, do things all the time that others might consider “wicked” or “sinful.” I personally try to abstain from judgment in order to understand the motives behind people’s actions. When we do something “bad,” we rarely think of it as unjustified or evil because we know our reason for doing it.

Humans are neither “good” nor “evil;” we just exist. The activities we take part in make us human. Every second we are performing actions that are judged by others, while simultaneously judging other’s actions and labeling them as “good” or “evil.” If we do not want to be categorized as one thing, why then do we try to categorize people as one or the other? Everyone does things that are debatable, but we hope that they are balanced our virtuous acts.

After all is said and done, we are all just trying to make it to the end with a good name.