Wednesday, October 10, 2007

So then...

Good and evil may depend on one another, but essentially they're also the same. They're extremities on opposite sides, but they have the same amount of intensity, weight, ethical magnitude and all that great philosophical stuff, except one is just viewed as being positive while the other is viewed as being negative. Yes, they're both labels, but technically we all embody the two, not just one or the other. What makes us unique individuals is the mixture of how good and how evil we really are. For example, everyone has those moments of outstanding saintliness and those times when revenge is the sweetest thing. Good and evil can not be separated. For example, Doctor Impossible's taking-over-the-world scheme isn't completely evil. He merely wanted to lower the temperature of the earth by several degrees, bringing about a perpetual winter wonderland. And he even says himself that, "I can always swing the Earth's orbit in a bit for the occasional sunny day. It's not like I'm going to be a jerk about it" (262). There's some inherent good in Doctor Impossible, being that he also toyed around the idea of the what-ifs of being a hero instead of a villain. He knows that he had the potential to become a hero, he just decided to take the more negatively-viewed approach to power.

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