Good and Evil (Logos)

No one on earth can be completely good or completely evil. There is an innate balance between the two in everyone. For someone to determine the actions of someone else as good or evil is a matter of opinion, because everyone’s perception of good and evil could differ. If someone does something bad but has good intentions, not everyone would agree that that person is completely evil or completely good.

In “how do you solve a problem like Frits Haber?” the reporters were talking about how Frits Haber used Nitrogen for both good and evil. He won a noble prize for discovering how to feed people with nitrogen from the air. Everyone thought he was a hero. However, he then used this same process of taking nitrogen from the atmosphere to make bombs, killing many people. He went from hero to criminal. Frits Haber is the epitome of good and evil combined.

In the “Flawed concept of good and evil” Hayao Miyazaki and Ashley Allis portray how within everything good lies something evil, and in everything evil lies something good. They show how the universal children’s story about the strong prince defeating the evil and saving the damsel in distress is not how life is at all. Normally when it is least expected, the person who is trusted the most and seems to be the most good, is going to be the person who turns around and does the most damage causing the most pain. With that, I must say that even the most hopelessly evil person can find the silver lining and do something good as well.

Good Vs. Evil (Logos)

     In science, we often hear the phrase, To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This goes as far as up and down, left and right, yes and no, and good and evil. It is the same in our everyday lives. With everything we do there is some sort of outcome. In the TED video we watched Friday, the speaker said that "good and evil are the ying and yang of the universe. 

     I believe that people are a combination of both good and evil. With out one the other can not exist. In Hayao Miyazaki's philosophy of " The Flawed Concept of Good vs. Evil", he says, " see the good in which is evil, and the evil in that which is good". Since neither good or evil can exist with out one another , then every single individual has both within them. 

     With that being said, I don't think  people can be labeled as "good" or "evil". In "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fritz Haber?", Haber is a Jewish man who created a fertilizer that ultimately saved our world. But he also created a pesticide that was used to murder many other Jews and some of his own relatives. Haber can not be defined as either good or evil because even though he may have helped progress our world and then left his dead wife with his thirteen year old son, he's only human. He did help our dying world in a time of need. He also helped Germans in WWI to defeat the allied side using a deadly gas. But, naturally that's what humans do.

     Not to say that we all get Nobel prizes and celebrate war defeats, but we do make choices. Our decisions can be good or bad, but that does not make us ultimately a good or bad people. Everyone has a good side and a dark side, but we can not be defined as just good or just evil. We're both. We're human.

Good and Evil (Ethos)

People are a combination of both good and evil. Fritz Haber is a perfect example of how a person is naturally both good and evil. He did scientific research in order to feed his home land Germany. His experiments with nitrogen lead to a scientific ground breaking way of using the element to make rich fertilized soil. That helped feed millions of people during a rough time in Germany. This also to date is used and feeds billions of people around the world. Unfortunately during WWI he completely changes the way he used nitrogen and uses it immorally to the point where his own wife confronts him and tells him he is wrong by using chemical warfare to make enemy soldiers drown within their own bodies with ammonia. Even though he contributed to society he also introduced chemical warfare which was also used in WWII on his Jewish relatives. In the "Flawed Concept of Good vs Evil" the way that evil is described is that we all have evil in us, it's just a matter of us controlling it in order for it to not become a problem. If we can keep hate away from our vision and hearts we are able to maintain a good vibe instead of being an evil person with hate pouring out of our souls. If people learn to look past jealousy and hate they can soar to their full potential. Evil can be controlled in our mind its just a matter of fact if a person is strong enough to do so.

Good Vs. Evil (Pathos)

To label one as "good" or "evil," we first have to decipher for ourselves what the difference between the two. In all honesty, it just depends on the background you came from and the morals that you were raised on. While reading the comic strip assigned to us, I was greatly moved and appreciative of the artist portrayed the female hero as a strong and independent figure, rather than a weak, fawning figure waiting to be swept off of her feet. And even so, not even the male figures have to be shown as a strapping young man ready to carry the world on his back, when in reality any one can have a source of heroism inside of them. My favorite part was the very end, where he simply stated that within all good, there is evil, and within every evil, there is good. It is not our job to pick one or the other, but rather to preserve the balance between the two, because of the immensity of the both of them in this world.
In “How do you solve a problem like Fritz Haber?” they are very biased on the actions of Fitz Haber. It all depends on their own views and morals. They don't see his accomplishments as something of his own, rather something that they're allowed to see and judge according to them. I believe that there is a mixture of good and evil inside of us all, and it is up to us whether we pull more to one side than the other. There is no one person who doesn't have a little bit of one without the other. But in all, it creates each person specifically. I believe this podcast spoke to the pathos of each of us and allowed us to either agree with the ones judging him, or cause us to sympathize for him. Either way, there's no way around it.

Balance of Good and Evil (Logos)

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.  

Neither Good Nor Evil(Pathos)

People are neither good nor evil. We, as described in an old Cherokee story about two wolfs, a good and an evil one, which fight within ourselves’ to show through in our character, have good and evil within us. Its the actions we choose to take that “feeds” the good or evil inside ourselves’ that shows through in our character. In “How do you solve a problem like Fritz Haber?” audio, they talk about Fritz Haber and his accomplishments. They did not once called the man neither good nor evil but referred to his actions in that way. When they perceived something he did to be evil, in their opinion, they explained how it was this way because it is resentful to their moral standards. This is why it is unreasonable to say someone is either good or evil because what one person may think is good or evil may be different for another person depending upon their culture or what they’ve been taught. People go through a constant battle within ones’ self between our good wolf and our bad wolf. Feeding either one can upset the other and cause it to fight stronger or we can choose to starve one and do only good or bad. In “The flawed concept of "Good VS Evil"”, the author’s explanation of evil and good follows this concept of no one is just good or evil. The author goes to explain how they do not think there should be just one concept of good by saying how they do not like to make their characters the cliché hero because they believe anyone can be a hero no matter who, how or what they are. This demonstrates how they’re can be good in any and all people. We shouldn’t expect good or evil from anyone because people should be able to choose how they react toward others and their actions. Being able to balance which side of us to “feed” is what allows the world to perceive good and evil and strive to do what they believe is best just as Haber did in his situations.          

Good Vs Evil comment

Some people would agree with Fritz Haber actions in what he did. But some would disagree with what he did be hurting many he also saved great amounts as well. I can barely see similarities between the two "Good Vs Evil" by Hayao Miyazaki and "How do you solve a problem like Fritz Harber", with Sam Kean, Latif Nasser, Daniel Charles, and Fred Kaufman as the speakers. I agree with Miyazaki in that the opposite sex can be just as strong and courageous as well as there being both good and evil in each and everyone of us. Just because we have some good in us does not necessarily mean that we are good people and just because we have a little evil in us does not have to mean we are bad people. People are portrayed differently by society making them good or evil according to the norms of society. On another note, today, people have the choice to be "good" or the choice to be "evil" it is up to what your actions are and what you do to make yourself a good/bad person.