Good Vs Evil Research Paper

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The truth about people is that most easily know what the right thing to do in situations. The hard part comes with doing the right thing in these situations. Throughout our life, we seen and experience many instances where people who should know from right to wrong do the wrong thing. While many of these people have evil or selfish motives, there are some who commit the wrong for the greater good. These people, looking at the greater good, have a justification for their actions because they want to help people. Therefore, I see that even though a person’s methods are bad, the outcomes of these actions being good for the public outweighs the crimes that were committed to get there. First off, the world can be a place where better solutions …show more content…

For instance, I remember the first time I saw the comic book character Batman in his animated show. At first, I saw the character as a person with perfect morals; however, I looked back to see all the crimes Batman committed to do his job. Batman, Bruce Wayne, goes out in the middle of the night, but he has no authority to do so because he does not work for the police. Yet, Wayne is more capable of protecting the city than the police because the law enforcement cannot handle villains like the Joker. Therefore, Batman oversteps his boundaries as a citizen to be his own cop because the cops are less capable than Batman is at stopping crime. In regards to history, the Montgomery Bus Boycotts come to mind when people broke laws for the greater good. During the 1960s, buses, like many other public places at that time, were segregated among skin color. One day, a black lady, Rosa Parks, got arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white male. In response, many white and black individuals decided to boycott by not using buses. To most whites at that time, they considered the boycotts as horrific and selfish. Therefore, these boycotters were looked at as criminals and enemies to society, but the boycotters continue their mission and succeeded in desegregating buses. In present time, people now consider the boycotts as brave and

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