Can good characters engender judgment?

Good characters can in fact engender judgment just like evil characters can engender sympathy; good characters can engender evil behavior. Not everybody is perfect; therefore it isn’t likely that an individual will be all “good” at all times. At least once in your life if not hundreds of times you will have to lie, cheat, or do something “Evil” for whatever reason you have to do it for. Keeping in mind, what one person sees as evil, another person may see it as “good.” What that means is everybody has their reasons for their actions; whether it is “evil” or “good.”

For example as horrible as this sounds; if a young women is faced with an obvious choice to either kill the man that has her new born baby, or too not kill him and too loose her child forever, then it is quite obvious what she is going to choose. Therefore after she shoots him, there really wouldn’t be any witnesses or hard evidence against the “baby snatcher,” therefore this poor women would be seen as a heartless killer who killed a man for no apparent reason, even though she knows what she has done, and why she has done it and so does the baby, if he/she could talk of course. This is one example on how good characters can engender judgment for being evil, even though deep down they are far from it.

“Kill one, save thousands,” that is a common issue/problem/decision that good characters are often forced to choose. Doing something evil like killing a person to save millions of others lives. Whether or not this is considered “evil” is completely subjective, meaning that some would see it as a good thing just to save there sorry tails, and others would see it as pure evil, just because there lives were not on the line. Of course killing an innocent person no matter what the reason is of course evil, and just because you would be saving another oh say thousand lives does not make it justifiable. If this individual knows for a fact that he is saving all these lives and that he knows what he is doing is completely evil and unethical then maybe it isn’t such a bad thing. On the other hand if he is only doing it to save himself and doesn’t care about the person that he is killing or the other people that are dying then his actions are pure “Evil,” because his motive is selfish, and unjust.

Just like every other question regarding “Good” and “evil,” whether or not good people can be seen as evil or not is completely subjective, and only if their reasons are justifiable will their actions be considered “Good” or not.