Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.

Erica Sehyun Song
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The world is filled with both good and evil. We have seen both justice and injustice, kindness and cruelty. It is impossible to live without experiencing the one or the other. In order to achieve a true understanding of humankind, we first have to understand evil.

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