evil help: There is so much corruption and evil on this planet, and I don’t know that it can be overcome. - Help.com

It can never be overcome. This is the reason our planet is so messed up ….
Inbreeding.

Question is, how do you define ‘evil’ and ‘corruption’? To different people they mean different things - especially between people from different cultures.

My view is that for every terrible thing that is happening in the world today there are many more good things and thousands more run of the mill, everyday things. The media (papers, tv, etc) focus on the bad things because they make interesting stories. How many people would turn on their telly to watch the latest breaking report of a famly having a meal together? of a paramedic reviving a pateient? of someone being cured of an illness? of a pensioner having a life-changing hip replacement? of an eldery relative’s 90th birthday? of a joke that friends are sharing? of a birth? of someone smiling? of a parent sacrificing even the tiniest thing (sleep, a film) for their child? of people getting engaged or married? of someone stopping at a red traffic light? Let’s be honest, pretty much no-one after the first night.

So all we talk about is the rot and corruption because it’s more interesting and passes the time. It doesn’t mean that the world in an entirely bad place full of bad people, it just means we talk about the few rather than the many (remember that the media only exists to sell and market itself, regardless of what they claim about truth and justice, and only print the stories that will sell).

Do what I do for a while: start beliving what you see and experience, not what you hear. Fold up the paper, turn off the TV, switch off the radio and see what happens…. nothing. Amazing isn’t it? The world doesn’t suddenly explode, we aren’t suddenly overrun by hoards of vikings, things just carry on as normal, but devoid of the cynicism and paper-selling hype that most people seem to thrive off.

Next time you walk down the road look carefully and you will see hundreds of good or everyday things happening that aren’t evil or corrupt and people who are quite average and ordinary.

I’m not so sure that empathy can be taught to people. It would seem as though empathy may fall under being an innate development rather than something which can be produced through a learning program. People have been emphasizing the ugliness of this world for many years, and it has not been corrected yet. It is just something you come to accept and endure. If you choose to fight it, then you will be fighting a battle so great in force and strongly interwoven that you will lose before you even begin.

Trust me without all the evil things would get boring. Its something you never really miss until its gone. Seriously though you can’t get rid of it, just gotta learn to be happy with doing your best and fighting as best you can