Evil Outweighs Good

Terryon Hudley

Genocide paper

            An estimated eleven million people were killed. Six million of these people were Jews. 1.1 million of these people were children. So where is the line that separates’ good and evil? The bad outweighs the good in a lot of situations. Pure evil orchestrated the Holocaust and other genocides dating from WWII to present day. It is very easy to be evil and do wrong; however, it is amazingly challenging to do the right thing and be a hero.

            While reading the book and researching other genocides, I realized that evil is more persuasive than good. This also tests religious views as it tested Elies’ when he asked “Where is god now?” By asking this seems like he wonders how could someone sit back and watch a little boy be hanged. How is that godly? This shows that evil outweighs good seeing how easy it to watch or participate in evil rather than stand up and fight against them. It took long enough time for eleven million people to die before someone could come save the Jewish race. Elie also followed his question about god with and answer “Here he is hanging there on the gallows.” He says this because he just saw a young boy being hanged for working against the Nazis. This just backs up the conclusion I have come to that evil outweighs good.

            Currently, in today’s age there still very bad doings and inhumane killings. Just recently a gunmen opened fire on college students; at least forty of them died. There is no escaping evil. This man had an option to pull the trigger. Why did he not pull it? The temptation and possibly the enjoyment of evil doings over powered his good will. This was the third attack on schools since June. All of this because you believe western education is a sin… While reading this article I wondered what propaganda le a group of people to do these things.

            Overall, I would say that evil pans out to be way more persuading than good because all of these occurrences have been nothing but evil. It is rare that you hear about heroes on the news but every single day there is a new murder. Not completely giving up on people I just don’t understand. Why is evil more enticing than good to a lot of people? Why are there more murders than rescues?  Why is good always being outweighed by evil?