Everyone is "tyrannically good"

There is no such thing as pure good and pure evil,outside of the Bible. Jesus supposedly gave his life to counteract our sins, he is the epitome of good and painted as a portrait of perfection. There is good and evil in all humans, and that is perfectly normal due to our nature. Sometimes, good people are forced to stoop to low levels to sustain themselves. Devoted Christians and the most charitable "do-gooders" have been known to transform into savages at the brink of starvation. Food is a basic need and the starving will do anything to attain it. The plane-wrecked soccer team, in the Andes Mountains, resorted to cannibalism when faced with the lack of food. Many cultures consider cannibalism a horrendous; if it can not be defined as evil, then I do not know what can. When it comes down to the wire, humans primary desire is to survive. For this reason, we can not blame devout Christians for stealing food when faced with starvation, or victims who kill their attacker in self defense or parents that lie for their children. People do what they think is right and sometimes it blurs lines with the unspeakable.
With good there comes evil, and one will not overcome the other. There is balance in the world; without evil, like the terrorists in 9/11, the good would have no purpose (ie volunteers). One has to be something or life would be bland. The human race would not know what to do if good and evil did not exist: nothing to argue, nothing to fix and ulitmately no passion for life. Sometimes, good people have to do evil things for the greater good. The United States executes criminals, on occasion, and this could be seen as evil. This action is justified by the assumption that we are making the world a better place.

Abi