People can’t completely be all good or bad, one day we
may do a good deed that came from a pure and kind part of us and then a day
later we could do a terrible act that came from a darker side. We are a combination, a mixture; we are complex
and with complexity, many different aspects come into play all at one time.
We’ve all wanted to be that person who lives a normal
life by day and a red caped, masked, super powered hero by night. However, in the drawing the author conveys
that physical strength and being a damsel in distress aren’t things that we
should strive to be. There’s more to
being a superhero than what we think. We
should strive to do acts of good and to stop the bad acts that happen in front
of us that is what a real superhero would do. There also isn’t such a thing as a superhero
that doesn’t commit bad or wrong acts themselves, because it’s impossible to be
completely good or evil. Being able to
see the good in the bad and seeing the bad in the good is how we should live
life. Take for instance how many movies,
TV shows, and comic books portray the typical superhero and how many kids grow
up strive to be exactly like them, the flying and super strength in all. What we don’t instill into the younger
generation is that there is constantly good and evil everywhere we look and
that it’s up to each individual to do more acts of goodness then of wrongdoing.
Fritz Haber is the perfect example of how we all are
composed of good and evil. Constantly searching whether we are considered good
or bad is something we all do and do until we die, you might say it’s an reflex
obsession to figure out what kind of person we all are. Hearing the story how
this man designed something as good as trying to create a chemical to produce
more food for the hungry, but turn it into a mass killing agent makes you
wonder is he a good man or a bad man.
From a Nobel Prize winner to captain of chemical warfare. The only way
it can make sense is if we are both. We
may be born good and happen to bad acts, but if we continue to do these bad
acts than you become a bad person who occasionally do good acts. Dr.Jekyll and
Mr.Hyde, we are split, we have good and bad to us this combination allows us to
react differently in each situation and ultimately makes us unique and gives us
our personality. Even as far back as biblical
times, Lucifer was one of God’s favorite angles, but he disobeyed God and now
is the fallen angel of evil. There are
no absolutes, only partially good and partially bad.
Many people refuse to believe that a person can be completely “evil”. This is due to fear, most people are afraid of the idea that someone could only have all evil intentions, which could result in negative outcomes in many situations. In Hayao Mityazaki’s comic he speaks of heroes, strength, good, and the type of hero one should attempt to be. But he does not give much attention to the cold hard truth of the villain. Villains are generally portrayed as the “evil” opposites of the heroes. Many comics are built in a way to steer children into striving to be the “hero” so they will not become the much-feared villain. In “How do you solve a problem like Fritz Haber?” Fritz Haber made “the most significant scientific breakthrough in history,” he created bread by pulling nitrogen from the atmosphere and discovered how to feed starving populations. Fritz then used his creation for war and was considered a war criminal, still after killing many people with his scentless gas, many continued to focus only on the good of which he had done and claimed he was a good man. This is another great example of society being afraid of evil and searching for the past good. Although people may have done things considered “good” in the past, this does not ultimately declare a person more good than evil. In the end, this is proof that no matter what the circumstance, people will continue to deny evil within others. Fear has created false accusations and made people blind to the bad things humans commit vs the good, thus making humans neither good nor evil due to the inability to differentiate between the two within a single person.
ReplyDeleteWe are both good and evil just like you say, in the drawing the artist describes what makes a hero in normal tales and that its not always as it seems that it takes someone to control it and never pledge ourselves to either side but thats not how it is sometimes we lose ourselves it seems like and we end up following a path we may regret later on just like Fritz Haber. this man was someone that was worried about his people dying of starvation and took nothing and made it into something useful for everyone around the world, something that saved countless lives but he lost his way and turned his inventions into deadly weapons that killed many people in the war, once he did that he lost all respect and lost himself, his wife killed herself and he just left, maybe he left because of the guilt but it kinda makes you feel sorry for the guy because he went to try to save his fellow countries men he thought he was following a path of good when in reality it lead to even worse atrocities in world war 2 the gas used to kill the many lives in concentration camps the very thing he made to try to help people live lead to something that killed so many people including some of his family leaving him nothing, this man had nothing left and was lost from any path.
ReplyDeleteNobody is born evil. The drawing says at one point that evil is innate, I disagree. I believe that good is innate and evil is a learned habit that one inherits from watching others. The drawing also says that evil can be controlled, which I take as free will. Everybody has the free will to act how they want and so if someone is evil it is because they chose to act evil. From the podcast we hear about how Haber first created something for the good that was helping many out but then later turned it around and was using it for evil. This is a prime example of the free will I was talking about earlier. He got to choose wether what he created was going to be used for the good of others or for the evil. When people belive that a person is completely evil they are just going by the acts of what one has done. Though the acts one has done may be considered evil, the person themself is not evil. All people are good but sometimes just don't make good decesions.
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