GOOD AND EVIL

It is funny how people don’t know the difference between good and evil and

ironic that they don’t know that they don’t know the difference between good and evil.

Who is evil?

For example, the characters Ned Stark and Jaime Lannister from The Game of Thrones (fictional) have both killed plenty people, but let us analyze just one each of their kills

Jaime: When he killed the mad King

Ned: When he killed the deserter from the Night’s watch, who saw the white walkers in Season 1 episode 1 of The Game of Thrones TV series.

Who is good and who is Evil?

Most people would say that Ned is good and Jaime is evil, but why? Why is it good to judge a man and kill him, but evil to kill a man from is back. Is murder not murder?

Was Adolf Hitler evil? Was C. Odumegwu Ojukwu of Biafra evil? Was Queen Elizabeth I evil? Was George Washington evil?

In order to be able to correctly answer these questions, you must first identify what makes an action good an evil. Or are there just good actions and evil actions?

Actually NO, No action can be said to be evil. Every person mentioned above is responsible for the death of many people, so why are some seen as good and others as evil? This is because even murder cannot be said to be an evil action. Every war hero is a murderer; Robin Hood (fictional) was a thief; and so on. NO action, not rape, not lying, not perversion, not even mass murder is evil.

All actions are generically GOOD.  There are two methods that can be used to separate Good from Evil. They are:

1.     Outcome

This is the method used by most people. It is why most people would say that Adolf Hitler is bad and OJuku of Biafra is bad while Queen Elizabeth II is good and George Washington was good. It is this way because Queen Elizabeth II remains great and conquered many nations and George Washington was victorious in the end while Adolf Hitler and Ojuku failed in accomplishing their mission.

No one cares if you steal, kill or destroy, as long as you accomplish your goal in the end. This is why so many people like and envy every aspect of Mark Zukerberg’s history, despite the betrayal he did to his colleagues. Some people would even go as far as blaming Mark’s colleagues for trusting him enough to tell him their idea. The same thing goes for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

To become good to most of the world is simply the same as to become successful especially in conquering opposition.

2.     Reason

         This is the most pure and accurate meter for judging good and evil. I believe that it is the meter with which God judges humans.

 Whether you kill, steal, give or help, your reason would decide whether you are a good person or not. For example, Mr. A gives twenty thousand naira to a beggar, so that the beggar would be loyal to him and later kill people for him. Mr. A is evil. Or Mr. B kills a man in his town because he saw the man’s plan for kill everyone in the entire town, Mr. B is good. Or Mr. C gets sentenced to life imprisonment for stealing from a bank in order to feed the children I his village, Mr. C is good.

Hence ITS IS OUTRIGHT WRONG TO BRAND PEOPLE AS GOOD OR EVIL BASED ON AN ACTION WITHOUT KNOWING THE REASON FOR THEIR ACTION. BE GOOD!

                                                                              By Stroo