V for V

We are the opposites of each other,
Yet without the other neither would exist,
We can be defined as good and bad,
Yet one can create the other,
We are the twins of the same mother,
Yet she treats us differently,
We're often spoken of by many,
Yet so few truly embrace us.

Do you embrace us?
Do you shun us?
Do you accept us?
Are we good or bad?
Are you one or both?
-Vice for Virtue, Virtue for Vice

“In a world where the first person to welcome him and become his friend he made an enemy of. It was a time when he was all alone in a place, and he knew no one, and someone reached for and offered his hand and welcome.

And when it all came down to it, the first person he betrayed was the one who wanted to be his friend before anyone else and wanted nothing more than to be his friend.”

I think the world has such wonderful things and bad things at the same time. Things you ask? It’s such a generic word, but don’t you think that sometimes it best to just to describe as a thing when we find it hard to use a word, thing is just there to use. Friendship is a wonderful thing isn’t it? Betrayal is a bad thing right? But the bad thing could not come about without the wonderful thing.

It makes you wonder, does a wonderful thing bring out about a bad thing, or a bad thing brings out a wonderful thing? In a world where there is a tyrant, who committed genocide, where many suffered horrors, in this world where many bad things happen. But then, there are people who do what they can to protect and save those from the bad things, and thus it is a wonderful thing that they do the love and compassion and caring for mankind, for people for those who suffered.

This is where a bad thing brings about a wonderful thing. In case you’re wondering, I’m referring to the holocaust where there were people who did wonderful things to save those who did bad things.

In this world, there are many bad things, and there are wonderful things. But must each create the other? How do we prevent the bad and let in only the good? But then, should we even attempt it? Is bad really bad? What if bad was good? How could we tell?

In nature, death which we often see as a bad thing can bring out life, like a raging fire that destroys a forest and new life springs up from the enriching process of the forest fire. So is this a case of point of view?

Is there no real good or bad? Or what goes with our values? Our alignment? Wouldn’t your alignment affect how you view it? It’s hard to truly define it, but you could say it could be defined by one’s beliefs and values which vary from person to person. It would probably take three articles length of writing if I tried to define the surface value of beliefs and values that affect one’s alignment. Of course, I limit myself to a thousand plus words an article in case anyone ever wondered. But I’ll give it a try.

In order to make this explanation easier, I will use the term good and bad loosely throughout as it would take too much time define each situation, the depiction good and bad is according to my view. Alignment is a moral and ethical perspective along with the religious beliefs of a person. To say that one’s alignment can be simply define by a person’s religion, one would be wrong, because different people from the same religion have different alignments still. You could have what we will define as evil in a religion and what we define as good in the same religion. A man can commit murder in the name of religion, and a man could renounce murder in the name of the religion and yet both believe they do right by their religion because of there morals and ethical perspective is brought into it. A man without religious beliefs however, could be defined by their morals and ethics.

But then this is an assumption where everything else remains constant and the alignment of the person remains the same, the person’s alignment might change in their life, due to events that change them and their strength and resolve can result in the changes or momentary changes of alignment. Where a person who was against murder, for that moment felt that murder was necessary or justified and committed it, or even an alignment can be very wide range, where people change their alignment according to situations, because their morals and ethics and compounded by each other.

An example would be one who is against violence is still more likely to use violence against an adult than a child because they think its wrong to harm a child, or in another case the person is more likely to harm the child because the adult more likely to hurt them in return. This reflects a person with the same value, but two different outcomes, which brings us to the variation of one’s alignment according to situation.

Another example is when people lose their alignment temporarily, is when good people are caught up in a crowd and end up doing something they normally wouldn’t do that’s bad to them, but because their part of the crowd, they end up doing it.

Other examples would be the seven sins that affect a person’s alignment and judgment.
Such as pride, fear, rage, jealousy, greed, lust and laziness.

For me, the sins that affect me the most is: Pride, rage and greed. These are my sins.


I covet power,
For I am greed of Avarice.

I am unrelenting,
For I am pride of Superbia.

I’ll dispense justice,
For I am wrath of Ira.
-The sins of a man