Peace: Separating Good from Evil

War is often described as a contest between good and evil. Those on one side call the enemy the evil one. Even today, some people describe Adolf Hitler as an evil man. I would like to think that Adolf Hitler thought that the Jews were evil. That is the nature of the beast. You don't wage try to annihilate people you agree with. But who decides what is good and what is evil? Obviously, Adolf Hitler had a different meaning for evil from the Allies.

If we could isolate all the good in the world into a bundle and do the same with all the evil in the world, what would be the result if we got rid of all the evil? A reasonable answer is that we would have a world of only good. What if we did the "unthinkable" and got rid of all the good in the world? What would be the result? It appears that all we would have left would be evil. A world of evil.

But there is one problem. If all the good has been eliminated who would be available to say that what is left is evil? Evil can only be called evil in the presence of good. So, if we got rid of all the good in the world we would be left wit a world of good.

It really does not matter who wins the war or what their philosohy is. The result is always the same. What matters is whether the people agree. To farmers in the midwest a tornado is a destructive force but to the particles and forces that make up the tornado everything is just as it should be.

Peace is elusive because we are trying to get one philosophy to win when we should be trying to get us all to be of the same mind.