the long search for evil

Some things are objectively evil. Others? Not so much...

Since there has been civilization, there's been evil. Or rather, things we called evil. For thousands of years, we've tried to find it and exorcise it, thinking that each time we'd found the perfect way to do it. And yet, evil persevered. No matter how much effort it took to attack its latest manifestation, it would always resurface somewhere else and as strong as ever. How? Why? Maybe we're just not fighting with evil hard enough. Or maybe, we simply can't pin down exactly what we mean by evil as this satirical little video tries to show.

Today, when religious denominations are slowly moving to embrace more fundamentalist and more black and white worldviews, moral relativism has been decried and assaulted as immoral and in some cases, just plain unpatriotic. However, it does serve a very important purpose. An obvious problem with trying to identify something as good or evil is that both concepts usually tend to be very vague and depend on where the person doing the assessment is coming from. A lot of things we're told are evil or immoral aren't necessarily wrong and we should keep that in mind when we go after the next category of villains as defined by our leaders.