There
cannot be a more subjective question than the concept of good and evil. All
moral standards that are understood in the present day by a majority of the
human population are nothing more than arbitrary rules and guidelines. Several
centuries ago, in the Aztec Empire, ritual human sacrifice and some mild cannibalism
were considered to be a show of moral righteousness to the gods. When the
Europeans arrived, however, this practice, along with much of the Aztec
population and culture were eliminated for being savage and ungodly. Yet to the
Spaniards who claimed this, genocide, mass rape, enslavement, and total annihilation
of another culture was the one, truly righteous path. Both of these beliefs, though
seen by contemporary western culture as the lowest of the moral “wrongs”, were
the pinnacles of moral “goodness” to
those who practiced them. This is the historical equivalent of “From my point
of view, the Jedi are evil!”, “Well then you are lost!” in which neither side
is truly correct except to themselves (Please excuse my use of an Episode III
quote).
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