Charlie Payne - Come to the Dark Side...

     This is a question of morals: before one can believe in a concept of absolute good or evil, one must first decide that their moral code is superior to everyone else's. Jumping to such a conclusion is not only naive, but pretentious and causes one to hold (even inadvertently) a censorious opinion of literally everyone else on earth. All people are different, and thus all actions will be judged differently depending on who you ask, so there is no way can successfully create an absolute construct of good and evil.

     So why do we even bother to discuss morals? The position I generally take on this subject is an Absurdist one, inspired by Camus: discussion of morals is extremely important for progress and happiness in life. Belief in God is highly unsatisfactory; throwing away a lifetime of questioning and pondering in order to have a set of moral guidelines handed to you is foolish, to be frank, in my opinion. Refusal to believe in absolution, and forever pushing discussion, is what I align myself with. People's lives are too complex and nuanced to be defined by a single word, and our world would be irrevocably deadened if we were to cover our eyes with the dichotomous lens of good and evil.

“None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. If saying bullshit is somebody's thing, then he says bullshit. If somebody is an ass-kicker, then that's what he's going to do on this trip, kick asses. He's going to do it right out front and nobody is going to have anything to get pissed off about. He can just say, 'I'm sorry I kicked you in the ass, but I'm not sorry I'm an ass-kicker. That's what I do, I kick people in the ass.' Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about. What we are, we're going to wail with on this whole trip.”