For the Greater Evil Part-2

This post continues from where I left off in the first post… as a recap, the fight between good and evil has been portrayed in all forms known to man and throughout history there were incidents and people whom were seen as good but were really evil. So here’s the second part.

1. Bible - Moses spends 40 days and nights in mount sinai to get the 'ten commandments' from god, only to break them after watching his tribe worship a calf and behaving unruly like hippies, so he orders the killing of 3000 people who were involved. wait, wasn't that ten commandments supposed to help the unruly people to lead a good life? why kill them instead of giving the commandments to them?

2. Present day Genocides: The same American govt, who condemned the genocide and supported relief movements in Darfur, Sudan, has not opened its mouth on a same genocide of people in Sri Lanka. So even human life is valued only in places of interest.

3. Caste System in India: The priests and monks who spent all their lives reading Vedas, preaching chants, and doing duties to god’s statue all day inside a big temple were considered the highest caste, Told the lowest caste of the Farmers, who spent their entire day out in hot sun, working in mud and rain to cultivate crops and provide food to everyone to stay outside of the temples as they would disrupt the sanctity of it. Wasn’t helping others considered godliness?

4. Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi protested against racism, when he was thrown out of a train compartment in South Africa. It was about giving separate rights to brown people (Indians) so they are not mixed or misidentified with black people. So wasn’t that Racist anyway?

5. Opposition politicians (any country) : Posing as a “Do Gooder” by exposing corruption in the ruling government, when all they want to do is the same corruption once they get power.

6. Religion: the ultimate power that controls people in the name of God, created to do good to people under a common faith, but a much greater evil in showing hatred toward another faith.

there’s a lot more history out there which I have not touched in these two posts. these are only a few examples put together to tells a message...!

There’s no pure good or evil.. there’s always impurities within both. It only depends on the degree to which you become impure, that makes us either of the two.

As Always, Likes and comments, dislikes and critic accepted..!

For the Greater Evil...!

Since the dawn of civilization, there’s been a split classification in humans irrespective of any other classifications that followed it. It’s not being Male or female..! It’s a much bigger one, it includes gods as well.. It’s being good or evil.

Have you people ever realized, that there are good people who are evil in some ways, but have been portrayed to us as a epitome of Goodness?

Here’s a few of the interesting cases through mythology and history, which posed a question about the Good people a.k.a Heroes, Here’s some instances of Good guys being evil (and evil people being good)..

You decide who’s the greater evil (or good) of them.

1. Adam and Eve - was it Satan who persuaded eve to eat the apple or the god who put the damn evil tree in middle of Eden in the first place.

2. Ramayana – Is it RAVANA, who went by the rules of that era where’ having multiple wives and marrying another man’s wife, after kingdom’s been conquered’ was common or RAMA, who destroyed an entire kingdom and killed innocent people, because his wife was kidnapped?

3. Ramayana again – is it RAVANA, who after kidnapping seetha waited for her permission to touch her or RAMA, who asked his wife to walk through fire in doubt of her purity and after being proven pure, sent his pregnant wife to forest alone.

4. Mahabharata – is it Dhuryodhana, who gave a part of his kingdom to his friend to make a peasant into a King, or Krishna, who let his friend’s teen son (abimanyu) die in battlefield.

5. Mahabharata – is it the Pandavas, who won the war by sabotaging the art of the war or Gauravas who lost it for playing fair.

6. WW2 – Germany for trying to prove race dominance to the world by genocide or USA, who showed world dominance by destroying 2 cities with Atomic bombs.

There are many more from where these came from, a bit of digging would reveal a lot more about the Heroes and Villains, after all history is written by Winners.

I will soon follow up this post with some other interesting instances. Till then, Think about it.

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