Today I've found myself wondering why it always seems like good things happen to bad people. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about - the freeloading brother that winds up with a nicer house than you or who isn't saddled with debt because he's lived off his parents/grandparents for his whole life, or the psycho killer that winds up getting life in prison while their victim is either dead or maimed for life.
It seems like everywhere you look there are horrible people that have things handed to them over and over and the good people keep excusing it saying, "they'll get theirs eventually" or "they don't have it as good as it seems." Yes. They do. And no, they won't get theirs eventually. I look at it like this - prison for a psycho isn't that bad. They get to make friends that are just as twisted and weird as they are. For every person that's gone to prison and came out saying how it put them on the path to the straight and narrow, there are 5 others that said they made connections, learned new techniques and were welcomed into a whole network of weirdos on the inside. The difference is that the people who were changed weren't in for the worst crimes to begin with and they are the ones singing the praises of the prison system the loudest. The ones who made their connections and became worse after going to prison aren't running around bragging about it because that would give away their future plans.
Now, for the crowd that believes an eternity in Hell is punishment enough for the bad people in the world, I beg to differ. Who do you think is tempting these people to begin with? Once a killer goes to Hell, you can bet he gets preferential treatment over someone who commits minor sins or doesn't believe in God to begin with. Who do you think the devil keeps at his right hand (well, it's probably his left hand)? A man who walked out on his family to be with the woman he was having an affair with or Adam Lanza? I'm betting it's the latter.
Not to get all preachy, but there really doesn't seem to be a punishment for these people. If being evil and bad is really an ingrained quality and something these people enjoy, their eternal damnation is more like a day at a really twisted version of Disney Land rather than a punishment.
So what's the answer? I have no idea. All I know is that good things keep happening to bad people and it's starting to feel like the balance between good and evil is shifting in favor of evil in this world with absolutely no repercussions. The good always tell each other to turn the other cheek, let God be the judge, etc. etc. while repeating that we need to leave the world better than we found it. How can we do that without any tools at our disposal? I can see how that may have worked when the balance was weighed heavily in favor of the good.
I really have no idea what's going to happen, but I hope enough people wake up and stop being so PC before it's too late.
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