Good VS Evil (Logos)

Good VS Evil (Logos)

People are not simple good or evil, everyone is a combination of both. The podcast shows that Fritz Haber was a combination of light and dark. He was a German scientist who came up with a way to increase the production of food by producing more nitrogen. He saved billions of people because as the number of humans increased in the world people began to outnumber food resources. He took a nitrogen out of the air and was able to produce food with it. This was a great accomplishment and Haber was celebrated for the lives he saved and that people were not starving. When World War I broke out Haber volunteers himself to help Germany in the war. He uses the nitrogen he used to feed the population to make another chemical called Ammonium. He used the chemical against people in the war. People were in trenches and he used the Ammonium to gas all of those people and kill them. It was almost cheating because prior to this it wasn’t the way war was supposed to be done. Germany lost the war and then Hitler took over. Fritz Haber was part Jew so he was not allowed to be on the German Scientist Staff. He was very angered about this because he took a lot of pride in his country. He roamed around awhile homeless then he dies. One of the strangest parts about this is that during World War I his staff created a chlorine gas that he knew about. When the Nazis took over they removed the warning smell from the chemical and they use it as the choking gas that killed the Jews in the concentration camp. This is terrible because he played a major role in killing people who were just like him some who might have even been family. The guy did an amazing thing by finding a way to feed billions of people with nitrogen but the same nitrogen he uses to do that is what is used to kill people in war and in the Holocaust. People are much too complex to simply label them or their actions good or evil.

In The Flawed Concept of Good VS Evil Imgur says that “Evil is innate natural in all humans”. I agree with this quote because just as evil is natural so is good.  Imgur later says that evil is always their but it can be controlled. If humans were naturally just good or bad we wouldn’t have to learn how to behave properly or learn the difference between right or wrong because it would already be built into us, but we do have to learn because we aren’t born able to differentiate between the two. Some people are better at controlling the evil within them and those are the people who are considered good in our society. The ones who have more trouble controlling themselves are deemed bad and often find their way to institutions such as prison.