The Gray Area

We are taught as kids that there is good and there is bad. That are is right and there is wrong. It’s black and white. As you get older, you start to understand that there are gray areas. You learn that sometimes good people do bad things, and sometimes bad people are capable of doing good things. Then you see that no one is truly all good and no one is truly all bad. You find that life is this giant gray area, because what’s “black” to you, maybe “white” to someone else. In a way, I think this is what Dostoevsky is trying to express. That even if you decide that you believe that one answer is the prefect and only answer then your bound to fail. Not just because there are always contradictions to everything, even something as solid as Darwinism or mathematics, but because what may be the answer to solve your problems might not solve someone else’s problems. The fact is that there is no one answer or equation to solve humans desire because people are so unique. So as Mr. Shapiro says, if you think that there is one perfect answer expect failure.