Sam Flomenhoft - Come to the Dark Side, Luke

Is there truly a battle of good v. evil? Can good people bad? Can bad people be good? These are the questions college students stay up late at night thinking about and pondering in to the early morning hours. In the end there isn't really a battle in the world between good and evil. Our primal instincts are to watch out first for ourselves. While we may enjoy social groupings and it can benefit us humans to travel in herds. Also if we're talking good vs evil, most things can't be decided into either category. Yes, there are some obviously evil things such as genocides in world history but only super drastic things can be categorized into either one. Each story has two sides. For example, WWII (minus Hitler and the holocaust); the Germans were fighting because they felt they had been wronged in the treaty of Versaille, and an argument can be made for that. On the other hand there is a very strong argument for the other side of not wanting to let maniacs obtain world domination. Even though the people fighting on either side of the war weren't "evil", this caused a tremendous amount of death and carnage. Also, there is the example of finding a wallet on the street. Now, if you find the wallet and return it to its rightfully owner, congrats, you're a good Samaritan. But if you don't, you shouldn't fell too bad. If the wallet was really that important to them, they should have kept better tabs on it. Also, there's no saying you'll be able to track them down and if you leave somebody else will surely take it. Also, coming back to that primal instinct argument: if we were all thrown in the forest with primitive technology, everyone of us would come to terms with what we had to do to survive, and many wouldn't even second guess it. And those that didn't would die. In the end we're born into this world alone (most of us, with the exception of twins), we fight through it alone, and we die alone. So everyone has to make the best of their situation and there's nothing evil in that, just survival.