Good vs Evil

A few days ago I came across a stim­u­lat­ing essay on the bat­tle between Absolute good and Absolute evil that is a con­stant theme in Walt Disney’s car­toons (link); and the implicit assump­tions we are teach­ing our chil­dren by encour­ag­ing them to watch these movies.

Whilst I agreed whole­heart­edly with the analy­sis, I dis­liked the implicit con­clu­sion that we are bet­ter off stop­ping our chil­dren from watch­ing these movies.

This reminded me of a sim­ple reflec­tion that I decided to share in here:

Things are not intrin­si­cally Good or Bad — they just are. What is impor­tant is how we let those things impact us; what we choose to do about them (or with them); and what impact we then have on oth­ers. It is the lat­ter that has the poten­tial to be Good or Bad.

Can you think which other words could you put in place of the word Things, and get this phrase to make even more sense?

Let’s hear them…