I believe that a majority of people do
what they believe to be right.
Whether they are
correct or not is another matter. In
order to be truly
evil, I believe
that one has to purposely, consciously, try to hurt others.
Be it physically
or mentally, a conscious effort to injure others is for no
obvious benifit
to the human race is evil. I also think
that good and evil
are on totally
different planes than right and wrong.
They do not go
hand in
hand. I believe this because good and
evil in my mind are
concrete, they do
not change. Right and wrong, however,
are more of an
individual thing,
which can not be confined to guidelines.
As I said before, I believe that people
try to do good most of the
time. As in every rule, however, there is an
exception. There are certain
circumstances in
life which can change the way a person acts.
There is a definite duality within
me. I am usually a good person. I
open doors, push
in chairs, listen to people, and help little kids. But,
occasionally I
catch myself thinking about how I could make someone feel
bad. I automatically feel my face turn red, and
that would be the end of
the thought. But I think once in a while everyone thinks
something like,
"He would
really be embarrassed if I told everyone about that time at
camp. Plus I could get him back," or something
like, "She doesn't
deserve
that. What if they found out what she
did last year." This is not
exactly evil
thoughts, but it can quite possibly lead to evil actions.
Prejudice is another form of evil that
produces alienation and war.
I have certain
prejudices that I carry and I am not very proud of them,
though often my
instinct about a person is right. My
major prejudice is
against people
who cannot grasp new concepts at a relatively quick rate,
or those who
cannot understand quickly. Somebody put
it best by
saying, "Oh,
you mean the stupid people." I
truly do hate calling them
that, because often
what they don't succeed at academically, they make it
up through
artistic talents, athletic, or mechanical talents. But the
people I have no
respect for are those who I know can think for
themselves, and
understand things, but choose not to. I
sometimes have
trouble
understanding if a person just absolutely cannot get it. I have a
couple of friends
who are that way, and they just cannot figure out trig.
or
chemistry. I just get frustrated and
want to yell, "Why don't you get
this? Why can't you understand that the
thirty-sixty triangle always
has a 1-2- 3
ratio!?" But I can't because one, I
would seem like a total
jerk, which I
probably would be, and two, they are my friends.
Then there are those people who dress and
act, and are in fact,
"druggies". This prejudice kind of ties in with the first
one because if
the person is
intelligent, than I have absolutely no problem with them
dressing etc.
like they do. But if they are one of the
people who think
that the cranium
is a type of juice, then I seriously get so stressed out
that I want to
grab them by their lapels and shake them to jump start the
brain I know they
have.
How does this effect my life? I know that it puts a great amount of
extra stress on
me that I could definitely live with out.
But it also really
makes me fell bad
that I feel this way. I think that I am
pretty open
minded when it
comes to the types of prejudice that are usually
discussed, such
as racism and sexism. I also am not
homophobic and
usually do not
discriminate on the basis of age. In
fact, I am very much
biased against
the people that are such. However, I
believe that my
prejudices are
not something which contribute to hate crimes, the deaths
of minorities or
the dreams of a young girl. I feel that
my biases are
very much benign.
A Shaker saying is something which if all
men lived by, the world
would be a ahppy
place. Mary Whitcher said,"Be slow
to anger, slow to
blame, and slow
to plead thy cause. but swift to speak of
any gain that
gives thy friend
applause."
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