The whole world is good

Here is a thought experiment. You have one dollar. You have a choice: buy a chocolate bar, or save a child's life.

What will you do? Save a life and miss that chocolate, or have that chocolate and let the child die?

Most of us have seen charity advertisements. So we face that choice every day, with every dollar we spend. Statistically, we choose good perhaps one time in a hundred, and evil the rest of the time.   Because of our choices, children die who would otherwise live.

Therefore we are objectively evil.


But since when were people objective? Good and evil are defined in our individual hearts. We all like to see ourselves, and therefore we are good, in our hearts, by definition.


So please forgive me if I sometimes sound a little cynical. I try not to be.