The world is an easy place to navigate, as long as you remember that all decisions we need to make, large and small and between right or wrong, or more dramatically, good or evil, all choices are binary and none of us have the choice of, well, not choosing. And please don’t protest that it’s more complicated than this formulation. There is no gray outside the crayon box. Those who champion its existence in the moral realm are always trying to get away with something that their own binary sense tells them is flat-out wrong.
Let’s play our game. Good is 1, evil, 0, or rather, since evil is never neutral, let’s make evil a negative one, -1.
Donald Trump stating that there were “very fine people on both sides” at a white supremacist rally in 2017 where one woman was killed by, not coincidentally, a white supremacist? Remember, only 1 or -1, and, please, no “I don’t know” responses. You do know. -1 is the honest answer.
Donald Trump and his Department of Homeland Security placing children in cages at the Mexican border and forcibly separating them from their parents? -1 again, do you see a pattern?
We all have a choice to make. Mine is 1. What is yours?
Michael J. Lombardi, West Jordan