Assignment 3 - Maddie Klumb

There is not a literal struggle between good and evil. Both terms are loosely defined and hard to quantify, thus they are relative and not absolute. What one person considers to be the right decision may seem to be the exact wrong decision for another person. An example of this is politics; The only possible way for the political system to become as extreme as it has is for people to believe others are making the wrong decision. Even things that seem as clear cut as the death of a terrorist can be controversial. The people who support, or follow, the person killed see the act as cold-blooded murder, and an unnecessary evil. The people who killed, or were against, the terrorist see what they did as a good deed, and are "heroes". The terms, definitions, and connotations associated with the words "good" and "evil" were created and nurtured through stories and one-sided opinions. When stories, situations, or objects are viewed from many perspectives, the term assigned to them becomes less definite and black-and-white. For all of the juniors who survived the otherness unit: remember that when you change who the other is, you gain an entirely different viewpoint and opinion on the world around you.