Dean Koontz latest book “Odd Hours” relates very well to this topic. Koontz, ( pg243 to 244) has his hero, (a common man, with uncommon powers), say: “To do something, to do what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that, when recalled on lonely nights, make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are.
Such doubts are high cards in the devil’s hand, and he knows how to pay them well, in hope of bringing you to despair and ennui, if not to self-destruction.”

It seems to me Koontz has expressed it exactly right. Life doesn’t come in neat good and evil packages, easy to discern. Often the worst and easiest sin is to do nothing.

Will you stand with those good men who stand up in the face of evil? Will you?

I served in the Army from 1966 to 1969. I did nothing of “importance”, yet my tiny actions helped defeat the evil of communism. I stood at the gap in time of trouble, ready to be obedient. My father was an x-ray tech in WWII. All he did was take thousands of x-rays of future pilots. Yet we collaborated with those at the sharp end of the stick, those blessed with the chance to directly do great good and great evil.