Good Guy, Bad Guy

From the time we are tiny all forms of popular media tell us that there are good guys and bad guys, TV, comics, movies, books, fairy tales even games, (the influence is so strong that we sometimes feel uneasy around people who ‘look’ like ‘bad guys’) from jack and the beanstalks - Jack vs. Giant, wizard of OZ – Dorothy vs. The Wicked Witch of the west, batman and robin – batman vs. the riddler, superman – superman vs. Lex Luther, cops and robbers – cops vs. robbers, right up to the news where we see flicks of murderers, arsonists, police, ambos and drug dealers, prompting us to teach our kids “Stranger Danger” (News Flash for the Happily Ignorant:) We know most first time drug users get drugs from friends or siblings and the majority of the violence is domestic and that most pedophiles are trusted people we know well, if not even family members. But of course we have already decided that these perpetrators are the ‘good guys’ and ‘good guys’ just don’t do that.