assignment 3- Safal Dumre

The idea of good vs evil all comes down to perspective. We like to believe in the clear cut line between good and evil, and that there is black and white no gray area between. The truth, However, is that the evaluation depends on the person evaluating. If a Father murders the man who murdered his child, how do we as a society evaluate the situation? The clear answer Is that the father is evil for taking another man’s life, right? That’s the way our judicial system works. Murder is murder and we send murderers to jail. But it’s not that clear cut in a moral sense. We don’t just dismiss the father as evil. We take into account the situation and emphasize with the father. In most cases, we don’t feel any remorse for the murderer. We may even feel that the father did no wrong at all and his actions were justified to gain vengeance for an action. The way we evaluate the situation depends on a person’s perspective. A famous question of morality is the train track situation. Would you let a train run over five people tied down to the track if you could press a button that would change the tracks and kill only one person. This idea of good vs evil is not clear cut. There are those who believe the right thing to do is kill the one person instead of letting five die. Then there are people who believe that you are not interfere with the situation. That if you switch the tracks it is as if you physically killed him yourself. The idea of good vs evil is fluid and changes with each situation and perspective and there is no way to eliminate one without the other.