Anna

The Person i agreed with most in ‘Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero’ is Andrew DeBlanco. The first sentence that really stuck out to me in his response to what ‘evil’ is reguarding September 11, 2006 was, “It’s a word we don’t want to use to excuse ourselves from these characteristics by pointing the finger at somebody else and saying, ‘There’s evil. Go get it, and rid the world of that person or that point of view, and everything will be all right.’” I thought that this was what the world had been seeing evil as, and we can’t anymore. Everyone has been saying Osama is the evil in this world, and if we rid him the evil would be gone. It’s not that easy, September 11th went deeper than just being the fault of one human being. It was a whole nation, trying to break us apart.
Andrew DeBlanco had a very good point when he stated that we as a country have lost touch with the reality of evil, becuase before September 11 we as a nation didn’t think something this evil could or would happen to us. He made a statement that we cant just live in this country aadn think that what is happening on the other side of the world has nothing to do with us, because it does and we had to learn that the hard way on September 11, 2001. One opinion that Andrew DeBlanco had was that what happened on September 11, 2001 cannot be explain with ordinary language of politics or psychology, because what we saw in his opinion was truly what evil is. Andrew stated that we need to understand that this was evil otherwise we won’t be able to cope with it; when i read this i thought to myself that if we dont cope with it now we will be living our whole lives looking for an explanation.

Ryan Writes

 ”I find it particularly interesting that many people these days find that they need to resort to ‘evil’ to resolve a conflict.” Ryan.

 
I agree with Ryan’s statement because it very much interests me that the world we live in see the only answer to a conflict is ‘evil.’ At this very moment I am listening to George Bush’s speech about September 11th, and how the terrorists used evil to solve their issue with the United States. I personally don’t understand how people see evil as a way of resolving a conflict, especially when there only reasoning is because they just don’t like us. I highly believe that it only makes it worse. When the terrorists attacked our country, they thought they were dissolving their hate towards us, but really it only made matters worse. Our country felt violated, and wanted our revenge. To this day we are still not going to sleep until we get justice for our country, the victims of 9/11, and their families; which shows that the terrorists resorting to evil for solve their issue with us didn’t solve anything.

In American History i am learning about Trumans decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We did this purely becuase we wanted to stop the war, and save lives. We saw such a violent thing, such as killing so many people, and ruining their homes as a way to resolve our conflict with them and end the war. Although I’ve learned it saved up to a million lives as well as ending the war, i still have to wonder why our country would even have considered this an option.We got our justice, but was our country able to sleep at night knowing what they had resorted to evil to solve a conflct with Japan? Truman saw it as the only possible way to end the war, but did not put the long term affects into consideration. Such as the cold war. The evil that we dropped on Hiroshima did do great things for our country and was done with great reason, for the better of our country, but we’re we too selfish to think of what we had done to Japan?
 

My defintion of evil would be something morally wrong or bad. I believe that a person knows when they are doing something evil, they know that it is the wrong thing to do. An evil person for some reason finds cuasing ruin/destruction, injury, and even pain enjoyable. I think that an evil person is able to be characterized by anger or spite. Evil doesn’t even have to have something to do with a human being, it can just be something natural like hurrican Katrina which many would argue as evil. Something that wasn’t caused by anyone in the world, but yet killed so many people, along with so many peoples homes and belongings.
An example of evil in the modern world, something were still dealing with today, would be the war that started after September 11, 2001. When September 11th occurred, one of the most evil days i will probably witness in my lifetime, it ruined our nation. At the same time though it brought our nation together, and showed the world what the U.S. was capable of even after our country had been violated. Of course we were sulking, and upset that someone was so horrible that they were happy with the fact that they had killed so many innocent people, and had tore their families apart, but we sent our soldiers out and fought back for our country. Although we are still living each day in the U.S. with fear when the next attack on our country will be,we are still standing up for what we believe in against the evil that don’t want any of us to exist.
An example of evil from history is Adolf Hitler, during World War II. He like the terrorists, killed many people becuase of their backround. Osama chose the Americans, and Hitler chose the jewish. Although i strongly believe that when people take such evil actions they know what they are doing, but Hitler did something so evil to world at this time in history that it does go through my mind only under these circumstances if he knew what he was doing. It was morally wrong what he had done, but when he tortured and killed the jewish was his mind so messed up that it made him do such a thing? Maybe he thought that evil was something good, and not as bad like we are taught it today? Don’t get me wrong what Hitler did was horrible, and from my knowledge of evil it would be considered evil in more than hundreds of ways. To pick and choose people off the street becuase they look as if they are jewish is just horrifying. It scares me when i read about what he did, because i always wonder if i had been walking down the street those days or even one of my best friends if i would be dead becuase we are, or look jewish.