Good and Evil
By Scarrzz
This is not poetry, this is a rant.
This is my Soapbox to shout
on, if you will.
Someone told me that "Right is in the eye
of the beholder", and I just do not accept that. Naturally my thoughts
found their way into my keyboard. I invite you to evaluate my logic.
---------
There are some things which are right, and
some which are wrong. There is good and evil. It is no more relative to
our opinion of it than than any other natural law. Just as I cannot fly
by disbelieving in gravity, I also cannot condone, for example, taking
pleasure in visiting cruelty upon an innocent. That would be evil whether
anyone believes it or not. In like manner, the giving of oneself to help
another, either materially or by one's actions, is the embodiment of good.
Now many things that people consider good and evil do not fall
into those categories. Those are preferences, choices if you will. Things
that are preferences tend to affect oneself primarily. Preferences would
be an indicator of one's spiritual tendencies.
If there is
a Creator, (and I wholly believe there is) then it seems reasonable that
we are given the innate understanding of good and evil so that we can
make a choice between the two. Whether we like it or not, our choices
define us. By our actions and inactions we are known.
The trouble
is that all humans have some of each nature inside us, and that includes
the pride of wanting to be "right." We humans have an amazing ability
to confuse ourselves, to rationalize that what we do is OK because we
believe it. We also have the capacity to lie to ourselves.
Right
is always right, ( Mr Spock would certainly agree.) and
wrong is
always wrong.
The choice of which action to take, or which path
to follow belongs to each of us. That is Free Will in action.
Choose Wisely.