When we were small, we are taught that there is always good and bad ; right and wrong. That harming others are bad. That stealing, killing, fighting, cheating are bad. That policemen are always good and the criminals are always bad. As we grow we learnt about corruption and not everyone that stands on the right side of law is always a good person. What if the person who steals, who fight, who harm others have reasons to do so but the law just turns a blind eye to everything? How do you judge a person who steals from a criminal that used that exact same money for the harm others, to harm society? If we are being bullied and the bullies hit us, we are always taught to avoid fighting back since this make us being the same as the person who initiated it and that we should not stoop to their level. What if you are so self-righteous, the person is insulting our parentage and going too far? What is you fight back for the sake of filial piety? What if you have been bullied for so far and suddenly your life is in danger( critical scenario) without anyone to turn to (calling for help, police, and outside interference has been lost for a reason) and for self-defense purpose, you fight back?
The law is created by people and the law states that causing others harm can bring you to court to be judged. There are loopholes in laws that give reasons for people to commit an action that in our early childhood is taught to be “wrong”. For example: justifiable homicide, where you kill to protect yourself. We all know that killing is so wrong and those that kill should be brought to justice. If killing is so wrong, what does justifiable homicide tell us? Either way, its killing but the assailant is not accused of manslaughter. What about euthanasia? The act of killing/ending ones’ life to end suffering? In many countries, they are banned but in certain places, as long as they have patient’s consent, then it is legally justified. How is killing justified in this way? How does ending ones’ life either human or animals be categorized under the “right” or “wrong” in the children’s mindset? True, humans are complex creature, we have morals, we have our ideals we have feelings. And these are what separate us form other species. Hence, the laws are also evolving.
Despite that, the laws are not perfect. As we grow from infants to adults, we see the real world. We know the world is not always perfect, life is not always fair. Some innocents are convicted to life in prison while those that are guilty walk away Scott Free. In movies, we watched where the criminals lose, the bad guys killed. How those that reflect upon us? Sometimes, we watch the protagonist that is not on the good side or we call them the anti-hero takes the roles of some tragic character, killing and ending the criminals’ life in the name of revenge. The typical “evil tyrant who got rich by killing, stealing from people and also killing the anti-heroes family where the hero would bring justice by killing the mastermind” scenario. What does that tell us? I am not justifying killing from the reason of taking revenge since all of it is only depicted in medias, in fictions, and for entertainment purposes. But who is to say that in real life, that there is no 1 or 2 people out there doing the same thing and walking away without being judge, or rather yet without being discovered?
Many people have confused themselves with the borderline between the real world and the fictional world, and these play a big part in what we called “the common sense” of the generation. I am not a law person and would not justify anything that is said here. There bound to be some points that are incorrect in the above mentioned but all of these are just my thoughts, my point of view .If a father who watched too much crime drama and told his son that sometimes it is ok to murder someone and the son really did that, how is that handled? From small, while we did our studies, exam and whatnot, there is only 1 answer, right and wrong in subjective question. As we go to college, university, we know that there are no correct or wrong answers. Sometimes, making a decision is up to you and there are not definite answers. There are no black and white but a shade of grey. I have a pharmacist friend who told me. If the patient has no other choice but to take a medicine for the better of his/her health but that medicine has side effects that will harm him/her and there are no alternative medicines. What will he do? There is something called the “benefits outweighing the risks” and he will make a decision based on which side wins. The benefits or the risks.These decisions have no black or white but is in the zone of “shade of grey”. In the real world, when we have jobs and so on, in certain instances, we have to make these kind of decisions. How do we act? Does it have a reference book to guide us on this like in high school? Do we have to choose just (a) or (b)? No. We have to think and we have to make a decision practically.
Actually, how does all this idea came by? The black and white; the shade of grey. The good/ bad;the law. The ideas that state that we cannot just go on a one-minded track but spread those decisions like crossroads, with many junctions and destination. That we can’t just say “Oh. He kills a person, he’s wrong, he is evil!” but have to think standing in theirs shoes, thinking that not everything what it seems, thinking that it is not just right and wrong , black, and white but a shade of grey. That a bit of critical thinking can come a long way, can set your path in the correct or incorrect way. I based all my ideas, point of view, belief that I have written here by watching just a simple movies called “Now you see me”. In it, it states that to not look too close or you would miss things but view it from far and you will see thing in a different way. And by that, it has sparked some sort of recollection that I have been taught years ago, that have to think “outside the box” and not just confined ourselves in a tight room without exits. As humans evolved, they learnt to think outside the box. As we undergo the natural stages of growth from childhood to adulthood, we learn that in the real world, to survive we have to think outside the box, that there is always a shade of grey. As stated, the points listed here are not used to justify that killing is ok or harming others is ok but simply saying that we should always open ideas to possibilities, and to take critically and not just follow everything blindly.
