Wow, just wow.
May. 20th, 2010 04:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
just2hands The Lucifer Effect
...but the point is, this is the same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination in some of us, that makes us perpetrators of evil, can inspire the heroic imagination in others. It's the same situation. And you're on one side or the other. Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, "Don't get involved, mind your own business." And you have to say, "Mama, humanity is my business." ...
And the moral imperative is "I did what everyone should do." And so one day, you will be in a new situation. Take path one, you're going to be a perpetrator of evil. Evil, meaning you're going to be Arthur Anderson. You're going to cheat, or you're going to allow bullying. Path two: you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction. Path three: you become a hero. The point is, are we ready to take the path to celebrating ordinary heroes, waiting for the right situation to come along, to put heroic imagination into action? Because it may only happen once in your life, and when you pass it by you'll always know, I could have been a hero and I let it pass me by. So the point is thinking it and then doing it.
Think it. And then DO it.
...but the point is, this is the same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination in some of us, that makes us perpetrators of evil, can inspire the heroic imagination in others. It's the same situation. And you're on one side or the other. Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, "Don't get involved, mind your own business." And you have to say, "Mama, humanity is my business." ...
And the moral imperative is "I did what everyone should do." And so one day, you will be in a new situation. Take path one, you're going to be a perpetrator of evil. Evil, meaning you're going to be Arthur Anderson. You're going to cheat, or you're going to allow bullying. Path two: you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction. Path three: you become a hero. The point is, are we ready to take the path to celebrating ordinary heroes, waiting for the right situation to come along, to put heroic imagination into action? Because it may only happen once in your life, and when you pass it by you'll always know, I could have been a hero and I let it pass me by. So the point is thinking it and then doing it.
Think it. And then DO it.
