Good Vs Evil Research Paper

Every human being has the capacity to be evil, whether he chooses to show it or not. That man walking his dog down the street, the aged woman sitting on the park bench, and even the loving couple feeding ducks by the pond all have degrees of malevolence in them. Just because evil is not visible does not mean it does not exist. “The madness would lie instead in the fact that both of those qualities, the savage and the splendid, can exist in one creature, one person, often in one instant” (Kruger, para.1). Evil is inherent in everybody, and that evil and goodness simultaneously exists within all humans.
Although people naively believe they do not harbor any malice, they do. Everyone, to some varying degree, possesses some aspect of evil lying in wait be it pride, envy or greed. According to Thomas Hobbes, “The life of man in his natural state is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish
Situations always arise where their inner evil is ready to rear its ugly head, but they are able to restrain that urge and maintain their civility. Every day sinful monsters pass by looking like ordinary folks because of the mask of civility they wear. “’ I spent 18 years working with people who everyone would call evil—child molesters, murderers—and with a few exceptions, I was always struck by their ordinariness,’” (Flynn of York College). A perfect example of a monster that looked like a perfectly ordinary person but was Ted Bundy. Often described him as polite, friendly and extremely good looking man, but on the inside lurked a sociopath, a serial killer who raped and murdered 36 plus young women. Fortunately, most people are able to maintain their civility in adverse situations.
Every human, no matter who they are, is inherently evil. Evil is concealed, but deep down it is always there lurking and waiting to be released. Whether we chose to release that evil is all a matter of