Things Clay Thinks are Subjective, part 1: Good and Evil

It's evidently clear that good and evil are both based on moral code, which, in-turn, is subjective. Our society roughly defines good as selflessness and care for others, and evil as selfishness. Of course, there's a very large middle ground in defining exactly who is good and who is evil, but the way that our modern-day society works it, a person will always fall on one end of the scale. You're either selfish or selfless, and that's where the subjective views come in.

My definition of a person's character should not be everybody else's. Sure, I'm going to formulate my own opinions about people and things, but they are my opinions, and not anybody else's. I can't tell you exactly what defines selfishness and selflessness for anybody but myself. The easiest real-world example of this, for me, would definitely be the concept of drug abuse and how it defines a person. I have friends that believe that drug abusers tend to be horrible people, but my belief is that specific qualities such as that do not define one's character. Rather, people's actions as a whole (throughout their life) define how good or evil they've been. Now, I can't criticize the beliefs of my friends on the basis that said beliefs are not mine. It isn't my place to tell others what to think.