------------------------------------------------------------------- +title: Good and Evil +date: Fri, 09 May 2025 02:54:02 +0200 +author: -fab- ------------------------------------------------------------------- <== I'm an agnostic atheist ==> As some people who read my phlog or gemlog might know, I'm an agnostic atheist, which means, I don't know if there's a god but I don't believe so. I never witnessed any kind of miracle, and I feel calm and good with that. It would be very disturbing to me if there were such things. Reality is already unpredictable enough without divine intervention. And if there was a god it must be god which is only contemplatively watching what's happening. <== Good and Evil ==> Although I'm not a christian or muslime or whatever else religion you choose, I know the difference between good and evil. And I think everybody does, without the need of religious education or some ethical studies. But the bible is right in the statement that we're all sinners. Nobody can (or should) be all good. Of course there are criminals and murderers and thieves and all this kind of thugs, but law should take care of them. It could do better, but most of the time it gets those guys, sooner or later. But there are evils which are deliberately and knowingly not prosecuted by law. These are mostly the evils done by big corporations, which are fined sometimes a few bucks but nothing that would hurt them. Nobody ever goes to jail for exploiting the population or the earth itself. And the politicians deliberately make laws that benefit themselves and mostly the upper class and elites. And they know. They're greedy and depraved. They have crossed the line by far. But I think even *these* people don't think they're evil. They've lost that feeling for good and evil. These people think they're giving people jobs, while cutting thousands of positions and exploiting the rest as much as possible. They are "important," and have to make hard decisions for the good of all, according to their reasoning. You rarely hear that they make their decisions solely for their own benefit and for their shareholders (which is, of course, what they are doing). These Elites are the real evil. They couldn't care less for common people. But the people who receive a salary in the "normal" range (which is probably most people), actually just want to live. To live and let live. And actually, there's enough for everyone. There wouldn't be any poverty and homelessness if it weren't for these elites. World War II cost so much that we could have built a small house for every person on Earth. But speculators are already securing the water supplies in their "wise" foresight. I don't know what can be done against these injustices and corruption, but it seems that when someone comes to power, the rules of good and evil eventually no longer apply. Whether it's a fat, corrupt politician who takes bags of money, or even police officers who beat a defenseless protester "in self-defense" to death. But there was a time in everybody's life when they knew good and evil, even without a religion. <== I'm still conservative ==> Even though all of this sounds like a left-wing lecture, I'm still conservative when it comes to my views. But that mainly concerns *my* little world. But if you leave me alone, I'll let other people live their lives as they want. And I'm not interested in making lots of money or gain some power. I have my living, but it could be a little more secure, concerning my housing situation. So it seems all the common people have something to loose and there's always a struggle, even if I'm happy most of the time. I believe this is intentional - you should never feel safe. -fab-