One does wonder how this discussion would change if we could step back, observe all situations, and have complete knowledge and understanding of all things.

But we can't. So we marginalize horrible things as evil. It all fits now in a nice little box that we can grasp easily. "well, that's just evil".

I also wonder what we would think if we could get into the mind of, say a serial killer, what would we find? Would our perspectives change if we could understand their motives, their history? What if we found, not an evil entity driven by, well, evil, but a person whose actions made perfect sense to them and us given this new understanding?

It's so easy to judge, yet so hard to understand. However, I absolutely believe that it is in that understanding that we find our truest and most fearless selves. Perhaps we have an innate fear of empathy, because it certainly does "level the playing field" so to speak.

I also think that most things exist, in their truest form, per se sufficient. I do not need need dark to know light. Light exists and is real in and of itself. Likewise, I do not need hot to know cold. I contend that this argument extends to good and bad.

However, if one adds a comparison, or a judgment into the mix, then all things become relative and thus dependent on each other. Lighter means that there must be a darker.

Look, it's obvious that bad things happen in this world. We too often do suffer at the hands of others.

However, a hurricane could come through, destroy my home and kill everyone I love. Is the hurricane an evil thing with a will and malice to do harm? No, it's a weather phenomenon that originates from a tiny disruption off the coast of Africa that grows and grows and grows until it becomes an incredibly destructive force. Now imagine the boon it would be if we understood that tiny disruption better. Could intervene in some way?

Could people be like that? Like the hurricane?