We need to hold on to the good, but also to restrain the evil

Davonte 2022-04-20 09:01:11

I wanted to denounce fairness and justice, but in the end it became injustice. Sometimes in the face of injustice, we need to pay twice or even multiple times the cost to maintain fairness and justice. At this time, some people cannot condemn it because the price is too high; some people want to get justice at an equal price, but they use evil to defeat evil; The society that does not defend itself starts, claiming that everything about itself is the fault of society. Only a few people put their energy and money several times over to get a lukewarm argument, comforting themselves that they are a winner. The reason for this situation is that the public rarely thinks that those who criticize are also seeking justice for the public themselves, and they rarely realize that they are also potential victims, that is, what they often say is none of their business. This leads to higher costs for critics. The second is that the public thinks that someone will always stand up to solve the problem, and there is no need to do it on their own. But I don't know that this kind of thinking inertia has caused many things that could have been better earlier to become difficult things in the end. Because you are the masses, and the masses are you.

Everyone is a history guide. Don't wait until the end, when you are forced to stand up again, you find that the world has been turned upside down, and complain about why no one has come forward and why things have become like this. Because people are not born to distinguish between good and evil, but evil is easier than good. We not only need to be good, but also restrain evil. Because in the balance of good and evil, God has added an invisible weight for evil, that is - laziness. It’s just that sometimes we don’t notice it, we just think that insisting on goodness will maintain the so-called balance.

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  • Stanley Goodspeed: [while in a cell on Alcatraz] "I'd take pleasure in guttin' you, boy. I'd take pleasure in guttin' you... boy." What is wrong with these people, huh? Mason? Don't you think there's a lot of, uh, a lot of anger flowing around this island? Kind of a pubescent volatility? Don't you think? A lotta angst, a lot of "I'm sixteen, I'm angry at my father" syndrome? I mean grow up! We're stuck on an island with a bunch of violence-for-pleasure-seeking psycophatic marines, SHAME-ON-THEM!

    [clears throat]

    Stanley Goodspeed: Anyway, I only got one chem round, and there's two left... Mason?

    John Mason: Yes, I'm here. I was just thinking how wonderful it was when the inmates weren't allowed to talk in here.

  • General Hummel: Major Anderson, if you have any concern for the lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons and place them on the deck.

    Agent Paxton: This is not happening...

    Commander Anderson: Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against all enemies, foreign, sir... and domestic. General, we've spilled the same blood in the same mud. And you know god damn well I can't give that order.

    Navy SEAL: We're dead!

    General Hummel: Your unit is covered from an elevated position, Commander. I'm not gonna ask you again. Don't do anything stupid. No-one has to die here.

    Commander Anderson: [raising his voice] You men following the General: you're under oath as United States Marines, have you forgotten that? We all have shipmates we remember, some of them were shit on and pissed on by the Pentagon. But that doesn't give you the right to mutiny!

    General Hummel: You call it what you want! You're down there, we're up here! You walked into the wrong goddamn room, Commander!