Assignment 3- Ian Schaeffer

Very few things are clear cut in this world, and the boundary between good and evil falls in this category. Evil is, of course, the idea of doing something terrible or destructive, and good its polar opposite. There is no absolute good, and often what is interpreted as good in the eyes of one is the embodiment of evil in the eyes of another. For example, in the book The Running Man by Stephen King, the main character, an impoverished man named Ben Richards rebels against the tyrannical game center, which uses violent and dramatic games to keep the population occupied and make them more comfortable about their own financial circumstances. To him and many others (including readers), this refusal to obey authority and eventual destruction of the games complex is "good," but to everyone in this dystopic society, Richards epitomizes "evil". The idea that King demonstrates accurately reflects the condition of the boundary between good and evil in the real world. One cannot fully gain purchase because both are based on perspective. Just in the same, neither one will ever fully disappear as people will always have conflicting viewpoints on the nature of what is right or "good".