People are all different in many ways; therefore, people can
have a good side and a dark side to them. Most civilized human beings can control
their actions, allowing them to only commit the crime in private. Others cannot
control them and they attempt these dark, evil actions in the public eye. There
is a different amount of evil inside each and every one of us. In the podcast the
radio host explained to us the different discoveries a German- Jewish scientist,
Fritz Haber, provided for the world. They start off explaining how, with a one
of his discoveries; he saved billions of people in the world from starving. As
they continue they explain how he also invented this gas to kill the Allied
troops in WWI. As I listened to the podcast I also discovered this man, Fritz
Haber, also did not feel any guilt toward this discovery he made, instead he
celebrated. Although he may have saved many lives, he also destroyed many in
his lifetime. This made me think, maybe because of his celebration to this
fact, made him more evil than people perceived him as. I believe that the only reason
he created a way to produce nitrogen or ammonia was to challenge him. I believe
he was not as proud of that discovery, as he was of the dangerous gas. A part of me believes that he found a thrill
of the gaseous discovery. To top my theory off, it was also believed after his
death the Germans used a pesticide, also discovered by Haber and his scientist,
in concentration in Germany in WWII. Although he was not directly related to
this crime I believe that in his life he was more evil than good. In the comic
strip the author explains how the story lines of his work are not cliché as
people would want them to be, because it does not happen in reality. He has a
view on the world as if evil balances its self in with good because it cannot
be defeated. I believe this to be true because throughout history there has
never been an error that there was no evil.
I completely agree that there is evil within good people and good within evil people. I also agree that control is the key in managing evil and good actions. Lack of control will definitely result in evil actions and will appear to be negative to the public. Fritz Haber is an excellent example to demonstrate that there is good to be done, but there is also a paradox to it as well. Feeding a growing population is a very significant accomplishment, but then there was the gassing of the Allied troops. Obviously, killing has a negative connotation, but the significance of this scientific breakthrough allowed military protection for a struggling country. His act of celebrating is not excused due to the many lives that he destroyed. Is it truly wrong to be satisfied with one’s accomplishments? I believe that, as a scientist, Haber valued the more logical approach to successfully achieving is ultimate goal. He had felt no emotion towards the fact that he killed thousands of people. To him, it was just another successful experiment. Within his life time he gave the word another tool for survival, but at the same time he gave the world another tool to destroy it. I believe that his intentions were good, considering the circumstances, but his actions were more justifiably evil. Society dictates what is good and what is evil. I firmly agree with that because if everyone truly understood his motivations and intentions then he would be considered a good person, but since no one can truly comprehend a man’s, let alone a scientist’s, mind set he is an evil person.
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