It seems to be a natural state of the world, or at least the human world, that problems exist. There will never be a problem free world unless it is a world with no beings because if there is nothing to experience the problem, then it is probably not much of a problem.
If you want to fight the problems because you want to be good then you have some choices to make. There are many ways that you could get pulled into the storm and spun around this way and that. To simplify things for you, you can either try to clean up and ameliorate the bads or you can do your best to promote the goods of the world (and if you are wonderful you can do both). Fighting against the bad is a respectable thing to do but it can mean that you give up a lot of your own freedoms and happinesses. Fighting for the good is perhaps the more selfish choice; it means that you yourself may get to have fun the whole time because you are immersing yourself in goodness. If you do both, and this is for the MLK Jr. and Ghandi types, you have a crazy, amazing rollercoaster of a life. Or, of course, you could do both but on the smaller level. You may think this is a vast over-simplification. For one, goods and bads cannot exist by themselves. There is always a mixture. What I am really trying to do is justify why I want to go to art school after I am in DC. (Always look for the personal reasons behind any theory someone is trying to make about a broader population or world).
Luckily I can always find good reasons for doing anything that I feel like doing (even while those desires morph and change on a weekly basis). It's nice how reasoning can protect feelings and desires if you let it. For instance I can always seem to say that if someone else were in my shoes then they would make the same decisions (because they would also actually be me if they had always been in my shoes). It's dangerously close to letting everyone off the hook for their choices, but it works fine for us peaceful folk.
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