In this situation, I would save the rebellious young man due to the potential he has in his remaining years. Does this make me a bad person? What if he resumes dealing drugs and ruining peoples' lives as soon as he's saved? Should I save the Mother Theresa lady instead due to the good she can still do for thousands of people? This is a classic, hypothetical moral dilemma in which there is no right answer; instead there's a large grey area in which either answer is understood and accepted. Now let's go one step further and assume that I was the former drug dealer, does that make me evil? Or was it just my actions that were evil?
Personally, I don't believe that people or actions have the capability to be simply labelled as good or evil. What if me, as a former drug dealer, was dealing out of the necessity in order to put food on my table or survive in a tough neighborhood? Grey areas exist everywhere if one just takes the time to dig deeper than the surface of just a "good" or "evil" label. Therefore, it's impossible to simply judge something without knowing all of context, and even once all of the context is known it is almost always too complex and conflicted to judge as "good" or "evil." In conclusion, because good and evil don't exist it's impossible for there to be a war between them, so instead there's just a large grey area that runs from socially and morally acceptable to unacceptable.
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