another rousing essay.

 Evil Essay

In Pokémon is Team Rocket really such evil people, or is that just what Ash makes you think? The thing is Evil is all about your perception. If you think something is evil it is completely possible for another person to think that and generally it is because your morals differentiate. When it comes down to it though, the three main traits of evil are greed, lust and intelligence.

Think about it this way did Hitler really think he was evil when he attempted to kill off the Jews? No he did not he thought he was doing the right thing and by contrast they were the evil ones for ruining Germany’s “perfect” culture/people. The Jews (and practically the rest of the world) thought he was completely insane and what he was doing was completely horrid to say the least, which shows how both sides can have a different idea of what Evil is.

Essentially though Evil is many things that are wrong with society and humankind namely greed, lust, and intelligence. Money is why people work; if not for that there would be no drive for people to work together physically and intellectually. Without a system of money everything would be much easier to get yet, there would be no way of classifying who works hard and who does not since everyone would economically be on the same level. When it comes down to it love is one of the, or the strongest human emotions and that comes from the human need to be wanted and accepted. That is especially so in society because the more one is wanted the higher they rise in social status. Lust brings love to a different level.

Lust is more of an extreme need to be loved and generally if someone wants something bad enough they will work for it, Love is no exception and sometimes one will do anything to get it sometimes even “evil” things. Intelligence can lead to many good things but just the same it can lead to many bad things. Intelligence allows humans find more than one way of doing things and basically that means if used in the wrong way powerful intellects can pursue a more cynical intellect capable of doing more evil than good. Ignorance on the other hand has a limited capacity for choices and abstraction so it’s not as easy to convince one that the act they may do is not bad whereas intelligent people can easily override that gut feeling of doing something bad.

Unfortunately though no one will ever agree on everything (since differing opinions is what makes society the way it is) so that means that an agreement on true evil in the world is theoretically impossible. Evil will always be what one person individually thinks it is making there always being different forms of evil. So really evil is not really a single concept but rather evil is anything people consider being bad or that are harmful to society.