Good vs. Evil?
What is the difference? It's relative. For each human being there is a different standard of good and evil and a varying amount of grey space in between. How fine is the line between something 'bad' and something evil? It depends on who you ask.
Once more there has been violence in my neighborhood. This week I witnessed another drive by shooting and it left me quite disturbed. It didn't phase me. Sure, the authorities were called, the actions were taken, but I was moving on automatic and didn't truely react. This has troubled me for some time now. I came away from the incident shaking, not because I was shocked or afraid of what happened, but because I was NOT shocked. The shooter couldn't have been more than seventeen, probably younger. The next morining it was almost as if nothing had happened. There where whispers amongst the neighbors, but no one actually spoke out against the incident. The cause and motive of the shooting seems irrelevent now, the point is that there was no emotional response. I guess the world really is that cold sometimes. Maybe this writing is my reaction, but I felt no outrage, sorrow or fear, only a sense of duty that if someone was shot (and they were) there ought to be an ambulance.
Maybe this is stupid, but this is my conclusion:
In the fight to survive there are only two sides, them versus us.
Who are we to define who is that ultimate devine in the battle between them versus us?
To them we are evil and to us they're the same, and to not pick a side is to most just insane.
Between worlds the evils always seem to change, but a person can get lost in the darker shades of gray.
The innocents in either world are always the same, and somehow they also make the easiest prey.
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arrested in front of me, I was in a car behind the people at a traffic light- and the cops stopped right behind us...got out with their guns, took the people in the car in front of me out, cuffed them..frisked them and all the while, I'm in schock.
BUT...that was 5 years ago...and today, I feel like if something is going to go down, I can't help that-
PHilly-- it's really an unsafe city at night. People here are TIRED and FED UP of losing their family members-- of people getting killed-- MAYBE it will change but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen some time soon.
"I leave my one and only grain of spiritual sand
to universal scales of humanity, all humanity...
forever is finding a solution to a solution." -Forever Begins, Common
http://www.progressiveu.org/231615-this-is-a-muslim-girls-plight