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In Between Right And Wrong, There’s Something Called Life

Alden Tan
4 min readSep 18, 2018

An extremely old article I wrote. I decided that I’ll attempt to read all of my old articles again to get a feel of what I was about. It’s a good exercise to motivate myself!

“There’s right, there’s wrong, and somewhere in between there’s life”

Now where did I get this awesome quote from? It is actually from, of all things, Family Guy.

It’s from an episode where Joe Swanson, a police officer decided not to arrest a dude who robbed a store when he found out that he was actually stealing food for his family.

Being Family Guy, the family was totally poor and shit, with the kids coughing blood and apparently dying and of course, wide-eyed!

The quote is really inspiring, because I couldn’t have put it better myself.

Just like a Robin Hood

You know how the Robin Hood effect is: Seemingly bad guy steals from the rich, but actually gives to the poor.

So the big question comes: Is Robin Hood wrong from stealing? Or right for being awesome since he bothered to give to the poor?

Maybe this is cliched to you, maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s just a fantasy folklore (or animated comedy TV series) where ideas of a perfect world of perfect humans…

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