  IAmMe
11/22/11 . chapter 2 Can you see yourself in this? Is this fine? I actually added a lot to it, so I hope it is fine. Again, my friend, ILoveBooks538, is always there, and will always respond.
How does a person go about defining the good and evil? Those two words are ideas which thousands of varying interpretations are linked. Every individual person and every individual society has a completely different view of what is right, and what is wrong. As we often judge those two separate concepts through laws put in place by a certain and specific ruling power, good and evil, no matter how unfair in the eyes of others, is often defined as such:
Good is what corresponds to the laws put in place by society. Evil is what casts off from society’s laws.
We are often and continuously taught that murder is wrong, that racism is wrong, that to marry another while still married is wrong, that fascism, slander, and thievery is wrong. It is beat into our heads so many times that those ideas are simply natural truths, not to be questioned. But these perceptions come to each and every one of us through rules in which other people force upon us, not from our own being.
Which parts of our beliefs are truly instincts, the type God wanted us to know, and which are the teachings of other men? According to theory, of course, humans are born with little to not preset ideals or thoughts; that most beliefs come to us through external teachings, rather than internal, however, is debatable. Most people forget that thousands and thousands of years ago, the things people viewed as wrong are supremely different than what we believe today. We are taught the differences, of course, but, depending on the teacher, we either do not grasp the enormity of it, or the person speaking is telling us over and over that technology was not as advanced, that humans were not as advanced.
What some might view as evil, others might view as good, and vice versa. People rebel all the time, and while the people rebelling view this as good, the people they are rebelling against might view this as evil. The murder of a human being that has been kind to a group of people, but nasty to another group, might be viewed as evil and good. In this sense, it is not wise to label a person as good, because each person is capable of both great good and great evil. It is what we choose that makes the difference.
Which begs the question, do we—as a society—have the true right to label any being as good or evil? What right to we have to look at a person, to judge them by the rules fixed upon us by civilization, and punish him as we see fit, when he has simply abandoned what other people do? Perhaps he was just acting on his own beliefs, beliefs that are independent from the whole, beliefs that other people might find appalling.
Who are we to do this? To throw people in prison, to lock them up? To take away their life in the form of death penalty? To ridicule, and make fun of, a person based on their choices? To ridicule someone based on their parentage or ancestry? To hate a person based on rumors, when we ourselves do not know the whole story? Who are we to do that to our own kind, no matter what choices they make?
We should not have that right. It should not have been given to us. It has not been given to us. We should withdraw ourselves, and perhaps others, from the confines of the civilization we are trapped within, and live our life on only the basics, the things we know are right, because it is not up to us to decide another’s destiny.
We should focus on the main essential of our being, and other beings in this world: survival. In this, any law or restriction, the things that have been forced upon us without our approval, should be stripped bare from our life, so that nothing remains, not even in memory. We are our own person. We can do anything. The fact that we think, act, speak, build, and destroy, is purely secondary to the knowledge that we are living beings, that we exist as a physical being. In this sense, nothing is essentially good, and nothing is essentially evil. There is only the foundation of existence, of life.
How we live life is only a small aspect to how we live, no matter what we choose to do with the life that has befallen us. Existence comes before essence. The things that are solid in this world are this: People are born to live. They live to die. As to how we act, as to how we choose to act, is a an utterly separate issue, for it is no one’s business what you do, unless, of course, you choose to disclose the information. A man’s crimes, a man’s achievements face in the comparison to the face that he eats, breathes, laughs, cries, loves, hates, lives, dies.
There is nothing good or evil, and we do not have any right to label anyone or anything as such, for there is only existence of life. |
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