you live as a privileged individual enjoying the best the world has to offer but I suspect you fail to comprehend and or empathize with a vast portion of humankind not as fortunate as yourself.
I suppose you are referring to the last three years of my life in Monte-Carlo, rather than the first 28 years in the Middle East.
Remind me to tell you about it one day. You might be sorry you have said the above.
there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever in my mind that you completely and totally comprehend the differences and effects of Good and Evil........and that you are a good person that lives by these base concepts.
Thank you but I think you appreciate me for the wrong reasons. I do not believe in complete good and complete evil. "Good" fighting "evil" is a concept I left in pre-teen years, which I barely remember from children's books that I had read at the time.
LIfe is a series of choices. Sometimes you find yourself in difficult situations where you do things others might call "evil". You do what you think is best for yourself and those under your care, but that might not be so for other people, who judge you as "evil".
Is a prostitute working to feed her kids "evil"? Is the boy who cracked open his father's skull because he was molesting his sister "evil"? Is a heroin addict mother who cooked her 1-week old baby in the microwave because he was crying while she was under the influence of the drug "evil"? (true story)
At the end of the day, a person does what he believes is the correct course of action. Some people are twisted in their minds, and what they choose to do is psychotic to the rest of us - like the mental patient who pushed a woman under the train in a London subway (true story).
I do not mind talking about one person being unethical on an issue, lacking foresight in leading his company or country, or cruel and even criminal in his actions.
However, do not expect me to talk about how one country is "Good" and how another is "Evil", and how supporting the former is "Supporting Good" while opposing it is "Supporting Evil".
This has nothing to do with my morality, what I believe is right or wrong. It has to do with my understanding of the complex web of choices that is life, and that nothing is as easy as "We are good, they are evil".
If you do not agree with me, I respect that. Let us just end the topic, please, as I see nothing to be gained by either of us by trying to change the other's view. |
