Blogger Philosopher on our Humanity

If we were to kill all the bad people in the world, would the world be a better place, with no bad people, or would we be the bad people? Would killing the people who are evil create a utopia? I mean, no one would ever be evil again, because they would be too scared to be killed, and there would be no other evil people. Or would it be a dystopia? These people are honestly acting on a human instinct. If we suppressed that, or made them not exist, would they still be human? In my opinion, there is a dark side to all of us, and by cutting that out, we would no longer have free will.

What decides whether a person is good or evil? A person could steal, but just be trying to feed their family and friends. A person who has technically done nothing wrong, has committed no crime, could still be an awful person to the people around them. What is the rubric for which people are good and which are evil?

In the end, I believe that you need good to balance out the evil. I think that good would not exist without evil. For example, if someone found a cure for cancer, that would be great for society. However, the cancer needs to exist, for the cure to be made. For every good act, there must be an evil that needs to be fixed. The solution to a problem may be a very good thing, but for that to exist, the problem must exist in the first place.

Humanity Editor: Doreen Yuan