Krieghan Riley
I have recently come to the conclusion that the only good people in the world are those that do good simply for the sake of doing good, and not because it pleases their deity of choice or because they want to be on the evening news. On the flip side, the only bad people in the world are those that do evil simply to do evil, and not because it furthers their position in life or fills the void of vengeance inside their blood.
Men and women (this includes thieves, cut-throats, murderers, clergymen; Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Mormons, Polytheists, Atheists, Agnostics, Jews, Worshippers of Isis (in Egypt), Jehovah's Witnesses, Eshandists and Everybody Else; Democrats, Dictators, Oligarchs, Monarchs, Anarchists; Communists, Socialists, Capitalists, People with no economic system in particular; homosexuals, heterosexuals, bisexuals, asexuals; all other members from every other group) are not, as a whole, good or bad. They are simply human. The only exception are those that do good simply because they want to do good, and those who do evil simply because they want to do evil. In the past eon, I think there have been three people that fit into these two categories (two have been good people, one has been evil), and none of these people lived in this century, and probably none will live in the next. So let us simplify matters by saying that all men and women are simply human individuals, with human flaws and human virtues.
This means a number of things. First of all, it means that you no longer have to be ashamed of your faults. Like every other human being, you are imperfect (conceived by people imperfect). You have human flaws and human virtues, and these cannot be reasonably weighed against each other. You have strengths and weaknesses, but as long as you concentrate on the strengths and don't let the weaknesses weigh you down, you'll do fine in the world.
And this also means that every other being (and I mean every other being, no matter how many people they've killed, how many cigarettes they've smoked, or how many other times they've done right or wrong) is the same way. They have human flaws and human virtues, and, again, neither can be reasonably weighed against the other, as humans do not have the right protocol to do this. This means that you can't judge anyone, whether they be Mother Theresa, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Emperor Constantine, because they are human. They are not good or evil, but like you and me and everyone else. They just chose to live their lives differently. Just like people do today.
