Jewish Girl, when you see a “black and white” picture in a newspaper you usually also see some grey in there.
But in fact it is not grey.
What it is, is actually the white (or off white) background of the paper with black dots spaced such that the more black dots the darker the overall “grey” color seems to be.
Fewer and more spread out black dots creates a lighter grey color.
So what looks “grey” is actually black and white mixed together, but
wherever a black dot in not placed in that area, is white and thus that microscpic section of white is not grey or black, it is still white.
It is the same thing in life.
We may not clearly see that good and evil are mixed together, but if you could look closely enough and see it from H-sh-m’s perspective you would very clearly see
there is no such thing as grey in looking at good and evil.
They are mixed together to ‘look’ grey, but the tiny particles of evil are still evil no two ways about it.
The same is true for the tiny particles of good.
But to “call” it grey is to say “we must throw up our hands and not try and do good or stop evil because it is all grey and we cannot separate out good from evil”.
But if we would follow Torah and truly try and understand what G-d wants from us
instead of having our own personal agendas which in some cases may not be
so in line with Torah, we could do enough to separate out the evil from the good
and address problems that some might otherwise find too overwhelming to deal with.