Tabbi Coffman #3: the dark side

Come to the dark side, Logsdon

*screams in joy*

This summer I went to the lovely nerd camp called VAMPY. You stay on WKU's campus for 3 weeks and take a class of your choice. It's not for everyone, but it was for me. I LOVED IT. Sadly this summer (which feels like forever ago already) was the last year that I was allowed to apply :( Anyways the class I took was a humanities class, which is just a bunch of hella deep conversations about religion, the afterlife, and *trumpet noise bubabadahhh* GOOD VS. EVIL!!! (and some arts and crafts so we wouldn't be too emotionally scarred)

During my time there, after long periods of discussion over what good and evil was (lasted like 3 days), we came to a somewhat unanimous opinion. Good and evil are not possible adjectives for people. People can commit acts that are clearly good or evil. That's not the hard part. When you look at the person themselves you have to think about background, intentions, situations etc. And once you have all the variables that you cannot simply plug into an equation that will give you good or evil, you realize that there's a whole lot of grey area in between the two where people usually fall into.

In my personal opinion, being the optimistic marshmallow that I am, I do believe that no one can be truly evil but people can be good. I think good and evil coexist more closely than we like to admit. Sometimes people perform deeds we see as evil, but it was done with good intentions and has a positive outcome. Are they good or evil? Sometimes people perform deeds we see as good, but it was done with malicious intentions and has a negative outcome. Are they good or evil?

It's really up to each person to follow their own morals and keep good character (knowing the right thing to do and doing it). And even then we're all still grey areas.