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Good versus Evil
Every good businessman knows that there is price and there is cost. Even though they may look the same at the front-end of the transaction one soon discovers that the true cost may far outstrip the original price.
In my "crooked thinking on the straight and narrow" I see good and evil the same way. Good has a price, but it is a one-time, up-front price. It comes with a permanent dividend stream called "good memories." Each time good is recalled another dividend is paid. Evil, on the other hand, is paid for on the installment plan. The benefit is up front, but the payments are life-long. These are in the form of regret and sorrow. Each memory of evil choices triggers an invoice requiring payment long after the enjoyment is past. Bob Deffinbaugh of Dallas says it this way: "sin is like the amusements on the State Fair Midway – the price is high and the ride is short."
I wonder if we really did a benefit/cost analysis if we would so quickly choose evil.
