Assignment 3 Come to the Dark Side Luke- Jessica Nelson

There are more than 50 shades of grey, shades of grey are infinite and prevalent. Think about the phrase the ends justify the means, traditionally the ends are good or “white” and the means are bad or “black”. This is a cause and effect relationship and I don’t think you can look at one of the two alone and make a correct judgment, the lines blur and the colors mix together in varying hues of gray. Everyone is always asking why, and for good reason. We have to weigh the “what” against the “why” to decide how we feel about it, after all evil is only a relative term. You always think something is the worst and inevitably something comes along to prove you wrong and redefine your scale of evil. For example the straight-laced, tee-totaling, scripture quoters of the 1960’s found Elvis’s pelvis the epitome of evil, but had they experienced Miley Cyrus twerking in her underwear at the VMA’s Elvis would had looked like Queen Elizabeth (at least he wore pants).

               Because evil is so relative in nature there is no way to eliminate it. When we get rid of something we view as evil, we no longer compare to it so something else moves into it’s place as the worst thing in relation to everything else. For example once chickens were no longer given hormones, keeping them in a cage became the new despicable act. These comparisons allow us to form morals and understand our world, making good and evil a necessity. A good person is simply someone whose evil actions are comparatively low to their good ones, as Miley once said herself “Nobody’s Perfect”, every good person does bad things, good and evil will never be pure, all they can hope for is to overshadow the other. What if Leah Kleppinger looked at the id in the wallet and discovered the owner was a CEO accused of embezzling money and abusing his workers, then decided to use the $4,600 to provide an orphanage in Africa with meals and vaccinations for a year. Stealing may be a bad thing but the spotlight would be on the good thing she did. Good may have won the battle but by no means has it won the war.