Evil Outweighs Good

Keaton Segebart

Professor Kepros

College Reading

30 September 2013

The Terrible Evil

            From what I have learned about genocide I personally believe that evil outweighs good. After reading night and darkness and watching the killing fields there is no doubt in my mind that evil by far outweighs good. No one in their right mind could kill that many people if they were good.

            As the psychologist said in the most recent Ted video we viewed “the world is, was, and always will be full of evil. Evil is the exercise of power. While watching this clip I saw pictures. Pictures, might I add, that should have never been taken. These things that happened in these pictures should have never happened and is a perfect example of evil outweighing good. The chain of command in that situation prevailed over the younger personnel would listen and obey their superiors.

            Genocide. What exactly is genocide? "Genocide," a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group, came into general usage only after World War II, when the full extent of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime against the Jews of Europe during that conflict became known (www.history.com/topics/what-is-genocide). Hitler’s attempt to wipe out the Jewish population was an ultimate failure when the Allied Nations liberated the concentration camps. This is another prime example of how evil outweighs good.

            After rereading Children of Cambodia I came across two sentences that caught my eye. “My dear friend Sakon was married to a handicapped Khmer Rouge veteran against her will. He was mentally disturbed and also suffered from tetanus. (Children of Cambodia)”. These two mere sentences are showing that people were forced to do things they didn’t want to do. The story goes on to say that Sakon’s husband suffers nightmares of his crimes and killings. And then he beat her. In the end he ended up killing her by stabbing her to death.

“Schools were turned into Khmer Rouge headquarters where people were interrogated, tortured, killed, and buried. School yards were turned into killing fields (Children of Cambodia).” This caught my eye because the Khmer Rouge took over schools, which is a negative deal because children were unable to get an education. Instead the Khmer Rouge killed more innocent people. This is another prime example of evil overtaking good.

When it was all said and done with an old man stated "It takes a river of ink to write our stories.(Children of Cambodia)" That tells me that they went through a lot and have a lot to tell us. It tells me that the genocide was bad and should have never happened. Evil outweighs good in so many different ways. These are just a few that I have stated. From the Hitler era to Cambodia to now evil outweighs good. It always has and always will.