One may argue that every human being has a common sense of what is good or bad instilled in them. It is this instinctive set of morals and ethics that has ensured humanity has always been consistently filled with society and civilization based on common ethics and/or morals most frequently regulated by laws and rules. It may be argued that if every person had a differing sense of good or evil, it would be impossible for there to be civilized society throughout the world, all through times, dating back to the beginning of human history. Differing sets of morals between individuals would make the transition between different cultures almost impossible for people to make as their perceptions of what is right or wrong would have to be completely reshaped to adjust to a new way of life.
If the argument put forward were true, there would be no need for laws and rules to exist and be enforced as they are and have been for the entire existence of humanity. If every single human had the same set of ethics and morals, people would not do "bad" things. People only consider things to be either good or bad based on their own opinions and thus the determining of whether something is good or bad is just the comparison of one's opinions and morals to another's. If everyone had the same view on what is right or wrong there would be no criminals. Criminals have always been a part of society and they are a reminder that not everyone shares the same ethics and morals or opinions of what is right or wrong.
In different cultures there may be a widely accepted set of morals and ethics by which people are expected to live their lives, but there is no set of morals or ethics accepted by every single person alive. Therefore there can be no such thing as a definitive good or evil as opinions vary from person to person, civilization to civilization.
There are several reasons for this being true, most importantly the fact that cultural differences dictate that there can be no universally accepted set of morals and ethics. By good, we mean something that people consider to be morally or ethically right. By evil we mean the exact opposite of good, i.e. something the people consider to be morally or ethically wrong. When we talk about whether or not there is a good or evil, we mean in a definitive, universally accepted sense.
What is good or evil is contemporarily judged on personal, ethnic and regional basis, not on humanistic basis is a flawed pursuit. We do and have to consider Taliban bad, evil practitioner, a terrorist on the account of mass massacre they executed in every corner of Afghanistan. It should be to no surprise, US tempts not to call them terrorists. Taliban’s apologists term them freedom fighter, thus good. Formerly, the White House issued statement, reiterating that the Taliban are not a terrorist outfit while Al-Qaeda is. The distinction carved is, the US’s deep rooted global interests are endangered by later than former.
Al-Qaida and Taliban’s apologists believe, Taliban fight a holy war waged against non-Muslim invaders, to safeguard Islamic land, Sharia and divine Islamic doctrine –what they do is “good” deed. Nonetheless, Taliban subjugated the courtesy of Islam for their political mileage and power gain, is an irrefutable truth. They are solely responsible for Muslim’s miseries, earning universal disrepute – the clue to any terrorist activity, leads to Muslim patron.
Taliban are using terrorism as a specific tactic to further their malicious ideological and political horrendous designs. According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 75% of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010, 80% in 2011, 80% in 2012 and 14% higher in 2013 than the former year. The report testifies, Taliban, a terrorist group, terrorizing the innocent people. What terrorist by definition is a group of militants who perpetrates violence in public disseminate terror and chaos, by making flawed judgments on unsound ground, consequently, inflicting inhuman punishments?
Taliban established a regime that was based on massive human rights violation. The world witnessed Taliban regime with suppression of women, coerced suspension of fundamental human rights, and elimination of right to freedom of thought and expression, harsh treatments extended to religious minorities, the list continues. The people of Afghanistan could hardly admit their human existence. It depicts the magnanimous commitment of Taliban extending unanimous support for Al-Qaida that turned Afghanistan a slaughterhouse for innocent civilians. Taliban launched a bloody war against US and Afghans that claimed the lives of thousands of innocents since US’s invasion in December 2001. In that pursuit a number of Taliban was incarcerated and some met their fates, others still have resorted to give a tough time to afghan and foreign troops.
According to United Nations former report, civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s armed conflict rose by 14 percent in the outgoing year when 2,959 non-combatants were killed and another 5,656 injured. The report attributed 74 percent of the collateral damage to militants, 11 percent to pro-government forces and 10 percent to ground engagements. Five percent of civilian casualties were unattributed. IEDs used by insurgents caused 177 women casualties, up by 20 percent from 2012. As many as 1,756 child casualties, showing an increase of 34 percent, were recorded last year.
The hefty sum of violence and human disgrace witnessed during Taliban’s barbaric regime cannot find justification in any human’s moral and ethical ground and civilized world. Should Taliban be rewarded international peace award for their mass murder of innocent civilians, as they carried out good deeds? The acts, deeds or things benefiting humanity can regarded as “good” –the contrary as “evil”. Taliban’s cause never complied with interests of ordinary Afghans, hence can never be regarded innocent but terrorists.