Is it Right to React With Evil

When Evil is Being Done is it Right to React With Evil?

9-29-08

If there is a bully at your school and he is picking on the little kids there, many would say to gang up on him and beat him down.

Does that ever do any real good in the long run?

Sure it will save some other kids from the bully for a while but, what about the anger and hate that would be left stewing and boiling in the bully’s mind.

It’s roughly the same with a lot of things, war, theft, feuds, and many others. In most cases if the person or persons in charge of what’s happening are sat down and just, talked to. If the matter is taken care of diplomatically, hate, fear, or even loss of death can possibly be avoided.

But there are exceptions to this. Sometimes there are people that are so evil that they don’t actually care if they get beat down once or twice. The anger that ensues will just egg them on and their goal, whether to get revenge, to gain control, or even to save someone, will still be the only thing on their mind.

It is not necessarily evil to do some of the things I listed. Saving someone sounds like it should be a good thing. But when someone is doing it for the wrong reasons, if they are aiming to get control, or if they don’t care the means that they use to get it, then they become someone who should be taken care of at all costs.

Although this is true, it does not mean to kill someone just because they are picking on someone at school. Diplomacy is something that we are meant to use, before the fist, before the gun, before the harsh word.

Evil is evil, it must be taken care of. But much of the time the person themselves is not evil. Every soul is equal in the eye of the Lord. We should try to see all people like our savior does. Only he can judge.

Eli