Innocence is a quality which all humans have which brings out the greater good of all by helping others instead of being selfish. In the visual, the author is portraying the idea individuals who must commit ruthless acts  are not doing so for themselves but to help the greater good. In the visual you can see a soldier feeding a tiny, helpless kitten in a trench during the Korean war. The soldier is behind sandbags which provide cover and his helmet is rested on his knee while he is solely focused on making sure the kitten is well. He also has a ring of his right ring finger which means he is most likely has a family of his own. Not knowing if you’ll ever come back to your family is a scary thought, leaving them all alone just as this kitten was left completely alone. In a way the soldier must think it’s his responsibility to take care of this kitten because he is able to help it and be there for it unlike his family. The soldiers clothing is also clean which shows that he was not engaged in combat recently and that this kitten provides hope for him to get home and that he cares for it more than anything else. All individuals, on either side of conflict are fighting for their others and are doing so for the greater good, they do not fight for themselves and all individuals share a sense of innocence which promotes their selflessness.

Innocence is what influences us to make selfless choices in order to help those around us rather than ourselves, it guides us to do what is morally correct. When I was just another trouble making kid who would play in his backyard with his sibling, I found a baby bird which was unable to fly due to what seemed to be an injury, when I tried to pick it up the first time it screamed in fear and was trying to escape my grasp. As I let it go I knew that I could just leave it be or try to help it until it was able to survive back outside again, I later came back with a milk crate and me and my family kept him in their for a bit feeding him very often inside our home. Two months later me and my sister were debating on whether we should keep him or let him be free. The bird had become less fearful of us but he was still scared when one of us tried to hold him. My sister wanted to keep him while I believed it would be better if we had left him go back out in the wild where he belongs and hopefully he would find his family. My innocence is what helped me let him go, knowing the bird would most likely want to fly freely instead of being caged up for the rest of his life and this decision was supported by my parents too.

Individuals must make selfless choices in order to help others and these choices are reached by embracing innocence and doing what is morally correct. All humans are capable of feeling innocence and all we need is to be presented with a situation to provide hope to another living being. Providing hope to others also leaves us feeling better knowing what we did helped someone else and that now they have the potential to do the same for another. This feeling also provides us with hope and can comfort us of our fears and we can leave this world happy knowing we made another life better just by committing a small act.