Isabel Bandoroff: Blog Post 3

I don't believe that there is a universal battle between good and evil; however, both do exist and will continue to exist until the end of time. Bad things happen and good things happen everyday, but I don't believe in fate or greater forces that dictate our behavior. I believe in free will. Don't get me wrong, I am a Christian but my church doesn't believe in the devil so I'm not sure what other "evil" forces would be out there. Although I believe in God, I don't think he has control over every little thing in our lives, he could have a general plan for us like when we die or who we marry but everything in between is up to us. Good and evil things have to exist because we as people have a need to categorize and evaluate everything that happens. Good and evil are different and if they didn't both exist then we couldn't make distinctions between the two and everything would get messy and confusing. A world where one could be eliminated once and for all would be a very scary place to live, so hopefully that can't happen. If every thing was good all the time then we wouldn't be grateful, we need bad things to happen to make us realize how lucky we are. Life without hardships isn't really life at all. On the other hand, a life with no good would mean no love, no happiness, no smiling, no laughing. Neither of the two sound very good to me, good and evil balance each other out and both are necessary. Good and evil can't really be defined, we just all have that little moral compass inside of us telling us if something is wrong or right. There is a grey area like when something is illegal or maybe "immoral" but it is for a good cause, it's justified. An example of this would be someone stealing medicine for his dying wife, yes stealing is wrong and what not, but he loves his wife, and she's dying and needs it. Does this make the man good or bad? I don't think it's that simple.