After finished watching the
Confession of Pain,
Friend: Actually, Tony Leung is not a bad guy.
Me: Why?
Friend: Because he have a reason why he commits murder!
Me: I think most of the bad guys in our world also have their reasons for commiting crimes.
Since a long time ago, I have been taught that Greed is the root of all evil. And most of the crimes are commited because of Greed. Now I think that there is another level that is deeper than Greed, which is the Fairness.
Greed might explains why bad guys commit crimes, but sometimes its hard to explain why good guys commit crimes, and I think its because most of the time, they feel that the world should be a fair place.
My Dad have once told me, that to compete with the bad guys, sometimes the good guys have to use dirty tricks as well, but he has no answer when I asked that "doesn't that makes the good guy, a bad guy also?". He just explained that not everything is as easy as it seems when it comes to the real world.
Now I finally have an answer for myself. A good guy does not need to use dirty tricks, if he is not competing with the bad guy, and if he is not thinking that the world should be a fair place. Whatever the bad guy accomplished, the good guy should never think that he should accomplish those as well. Whatever the bad guy did, the good guy should not think about retaliation.
When asked the question "this is not fair, why does this happen (to me)?", Buddhism attempt to answer this question with the concept of
reincarnation. That if things are not fair in this life, it will be when taking all your lives into account. You suffer in this life because of the bad things that you did in your previous life, to make it fair. When you do good things and did not get any rewards at the end of it, you will be rewarded in your next life, to make it fair. I think other religions have problems (correct me if I am wrong) answering this type of question, besides just asking its followers to just have faith.
So to me, Thinking That The World Is/Should Be Fair, IS the root of all evil.