Hypothetical Greyscale Scenarios

Saying that there is “absolute good” and “absolute evil” engaged in a constantly ongoing war, is, to me, quite silly. Behind nearly every action, there can be some way or another that the action can be deemed “just” or “reasonable”. For instance, cannibalism. In most cases, cannibalism is frowned deeply upon in society. But here’s a hypothetical scenario: what if there are several people who have been in a lifeboat for over a week, with nothing to eat, and no land in sight. One of them is about to die. In this scenario, would it be wholly “evil” for the surviving passengers to eat the dead one, after he or she had passed on? Certainly not! Furthermore, there are many actions which can neither be classified as good or evil. Let’s say a person is just sitting in a chair and eating an apple. Where would this fall, on a moral scale, between good and evil? If anything, it falls completely outside the scale, as eating an apple really isn’t anything that benefits anyone much, but it also doesn’t hurt anyone(because, hey, apples are good for your health). But really, a big part of the good/evil dichotomy is in how we, as an audience, choose to view certain things. Let’s keep going with these hypothetical scenarios. A boy is playing with a toy car, when another boy runs up to him and steals it from him. With just this information, we see that the first boy is innocent, and therefore good, but the second boy is very rude, and therefore bad. But what if we found out that the car initially was given to the second boy for his birthday, but the first boy stole it from him? Two rights don’t make a wrong, of course, but seeing this new information is more likely to skew our view into seeing that the second boy is really the good one, and the first boy is the bad one.