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The Evil of Human Nature and Mother Nature

When someone has what they call a great day, there is always an aspect of it that they would say was not too great. If a person were to think back to the best day of their lives, they would also be able to remember something that troubled them that same day. The size of the ‘troubling’ or ‘bad’ aspect doesn’t dismiss the fact that there was indeed a point of evil in their day. If a man was planning to propose to his girlfriend that night after dinner, and he had a whole plan and was ready to pop the question, and she doesn’t quite go with his plan like he thought she would, forcing him to improvise. We all know that improvising for something as big as a proposal is a very hard and stressful thing; all you want is for it to be perfect. In the end, he still proposes to her as best he could think and she happily says yes. This is a great day for the both of them; they are now a happily engaged couple. As much as he may think of how happy that night was, he will always remember the struggle he went through to make it as special as he could. Unintentional, yes, but it doesn’t change the fact that he was troubled, and had to go an extra mile for a bad reaction to his plan from his girlfriend, now fiancée. His day was still great and he is still very happy with his outcome, although it may not have been all perfect. However good your day may be, there is always going to be some aspect of evil.
A very common way that ‘evil’ is brought about in a situation is through people. In North Korea, although not admitted to, scientist hosted an experiment that held a great deal of evil and no real actions that could be passed as good. “One former North Korean woman prisoner tells how 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given poisoned cabbage leaves, which all the women had to eat despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 were dead after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat would have meant reprisals against them and their families.” (North Korean Experiment P4) It is clear that the people running this experiment knew the woman prisoners would end up dying. It is very well known that poison kills people. These people forced, and threatened if refused, 50 HEALTHY women to eat poison and watched them die a horrific death. If one were to think back on this, what was the real point of this experiment? To confirm that poison kills healthy women? This experiment came from very evil intentions and 50 lives and loved ones were lost to an experiment that seemed to have no point at all, and surely could have been avoided. Had there not been scientist to conduct this clearly evil experiment, there would not be the loss of 50 women for a pointless cause.
Evil travels in more way than one, although people may be more common, Mother Nature plays its role in spreading evil as well. This story is of a tragic plane crash with many casualties. Looking deeper past those sad cases, there was a very heroic man who had saved peoples’ lives from his own selflessness, whom in the end had to experience evil through Mother Nature itself. “For at some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. He had to know it, no matter how gradual the effect of the cold. In his judgment he had no choice. When the helicopter took off with what was to be the last survivor, he watched everything in the world move away from him, and he deliberately let it happen.” (The Man in the Water by Roger Rosenblatt P6) Even through all the heroic actions that came from this story, the man, the hero himself who deserved nothing less than life, was taken from us by the cold waters of Mother Nature. There would not be the tragic loss of a heroic man’s life had the evil of Mother Nature not taken his only chance from him.
Evil, no matter how large or small the amount is, is always present in any day, good or bad. Our world has many good parts too it but no matter where you look, you will find evil. This does not mean we cannot learn to look past it, or make light of it sometimes. There will always be situations where it is just so bad that there can’t be any light made from it. Although this may be true, you should always be prepared to come across the evil in each day and be prepared to either make good of it or overcome it.

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