Bad is Bad

I am confused what we are thinking.  We are making the good guys look like villains and the bad guys look “misunderstood”.  For example, Disney’s movie Maleficent, she was dismembered (her wings were removed) by the future king who she was in love with.   I know it’s a fictional story.  Yet people are saying she was hurt by someone, therefore it’s fine how she acts.  I don’t understand that thinking. We all get hurt by someone.  Does that make it okay to hurt others?

All of us have bad things happen to us.  It’s up to us on how we handle it and every other event after that.  An eye for an eye thinking may feel good at the time, but usually the conscience kicks in.  People handle these feelings differently.  Some feel bad and avoid doing something like it again.  Others don’t realize how it made them feel.  Is it guilt?  Is it pleasure?  If a person miss construes their own feelings, it could change that person.  A sweet kind person can turn to a rebellious person and a rude vengeful person can turn into a sweet person.

But no matter the reasoning how the person turns into who they end up being, doing wrong is just wrong.  I got in a conversation with someone who got mad at the police officer who gave them a ticket.  Someone asked if they actually broke the law and they admitted that they did.  My response to them was to be mad at yourself and not at the officer that was doing their job.  What made me mad about that situation was their friends getting mad with them.  I re-stated that the person was in the wrong not the officer. 

The fact is breaking the law is wrong and there is no excuse or reason that changes that.  Each of us have a choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing.  What will you choose?