Good and Evil

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.

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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.