for evil to triumph, good men should do nothing Options

[Comptine]

the topic title is a version of a famous quote by Edmund Burke.

in a show i watched, one character was about to be sent back to rwanda to be executed. he was a doctor in rwanda who was asked by military men to set up a shelter for tutsis. when his clinic was packed full of tutsis, the military men came back with even more men and proceeded to slaughter everyone there except the doctor. the doctor had let it happen and didn't do anything (tried to reason with the military men, get help, etc.)

do you think just because one individual did nothing against evil, he should have to face the consequences as if he did an act of evil himself?

[mai_z]

In my opinion, good and evil are dependent in the sense that if one didn't exist, there is no need for the other

Everything exists on a scale. Nothing is definitavely (sp?) good or evil....unless everyone was equally good or evil, there will always be those two extremes in some sense or another.

Helping and speaking for victims is honorable, but doing nothing does not make you an evil-doer. Everyone is responsible first and foremost for looking after themselves, after that, THEN feel free to go save the world if you feel the need to.