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+title:  Good and Evil
+date:   Fri, 09 May 2025 02:54:02 +0200
+author: -fab- <fab@redterminal.org>
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<== 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-