Assignment 3: Come to The Dark Side, Luke Emmet Allen

Every person has an opinion. In people our age those opinions are often unformed or too severe for reality, but they are opinions nonetheless. These opinions range from preferences of beverage to decisions on the justness of international policy, but they are all rooted in our personal morality. Or morality that we adopt from our society and expound upon to make it our own. Or religious beliefs. Or hatred instilled within the individual. There is an infinite number of reasons for what each of us consider "moral," but none of them can really be understood by anyone with a different view. These views can be influenced by the boundaries enforced by cognitive relativism or simple disagreement on which interpretation of the same facts leads to the best outcome. The point is that there is no agreement among the inhabitants of the world on what is right. A fundamentalist of the Christian faith may find it acceptable to beat a child when he or she misbehaves while a more liberal interpretation of the same religion will find a completely different stance on the issue. But one cannot decide on the proper action until they establish which interpretation of the religion is correct (this is no issue for an english class blog post but I think it's safe to assume there is not a known correct religion for everyone), because morality in these cases is based on what is acceptable according to God.
These are the differences within one monotheist religion, among all religions, among all sets of belief, among all facts that an individual can know.
The infinite number of influences and thus infinite number of theories of morality show there is no obvious good and evil. Unfortunately for the writers of Star Wars, Darth Vader is only committing atrocities if you value human life.