If you've been around Americans or American politics in the last couple years you hear a lot of people calling other people "Hitler" or a "Nazi" or some variation thereof. You'll also hear people calling others a "racist". The idea is simple, if you can show similarities between, say, Bush and Hitler, then you can prove he is a bad person. This all extends from the serious lack of any national character or set moral boundries in our own society. Nearly everyone in this country agrees that racism is bad and nearly everyone agrees that Hitler is akin to the Devil (but since a lot of country doesn't believe in the Devil but believes in Hitler it works better using Hitler). National character is completely void of "good" and "bad". Single black women having kids is "good", if you say otherwise you are a racist. Single white women having kids is "good", saying otherwise means you are opposed to women's rights.

Let's be clear. Bad is Hitler. Bad is racism. Everything outside that is up for grabs. Do what you want, just don't kill any Jews or say anything about blacks (including the word "picnic".......just ask me).

I'm convinced that this is confusing for society at best. First off, Hitler killed 10,000,000 or so people. He lined them up and gassed them or shot them. That's pretty low. Do we want to set the bar to badness that low? Can't bad be, say, Kelis? (The rap performer who performs the "Milkshake" song)

Here's a sample:

" My Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,
And their like "It's better than yours"
Damn right, It's better than yours,
I can teach you, but I have to charge"

Of course, she's talking about her breasts and the way they shake. Besides for being vulgar it's also just stupid. Moronic. Really, adding very little here to the human condition as a whole. We could spend millions of dollars feeding the hungry or something, instead we sink millions into pressing records about tits. Kelis and her record ain't Hitler, that's not the point. The point is that the standard for badness needs to be raised so more people can see behavior that isn't simply maliciously violent but also stupid, inane, childish, selfish, and vulgar as being bad.

Honestly, who can live up to Hitler's standard of killing 10,000,000 people? Anyone? Stalin, maybe?

Who can live up to being an vulgar idiot like Kelis? I know I can from time to time. 

Jesus Christ, when called good, said something like: "No one but God is good".

Let's get this straght. The guy who healed the lame, the guy who never sinned, the guy who died for the world's bad deeds, the guy who was sinless, blameless, and without defect said he wasn't good? Well, shit, where does that place me? Where does it place you?

Instead of earning goodness by not doing things (EG- Not killing 10,000,000 people) maybe we should attempt to earn goodness by doing good things. In fact, here's my challenge, for the next week every person who you come into contact with make their day a little better. Telemarketers. Grocery Store Baggers. Your Wife. Everyone, make their life easier. Make them smile. Not killing people is nice but bettering people, that takes effort. That is what makes us "good", if any such thing exists. Pissing people off, that makes you "bad". Every time you spread a foul attitude, give someone the finger, act apathetic toward someone.......you get the idea. Don't do that. Aim for goodness. You won't be Jesus, but you won't be Kelis either. And trust me, being on a different, higher level than Kelis is a good thing.