Alexis Kirkland: Come to the Dark Side, Luke.

As far as good and evil goes, I believe those two ideas are definite. Things like feeding the homeless and donating to charities and helping your community are good things. Killing people and using people for material purposes are evil things. However, not all actions must fit under either the "good" umbrella or the "evil" umbrella. Some things are just mistakes, bad ideas, or lacks of judgement. Allow me to elaborate.

Let's start with Liam Payne, 22, member of One Direction. Last week, he was on the cover of Attitude Magazine, a magazine directed toward a gay audience. In the interview done with him, they discussed, obviously, his ideas on gay rights. Liam said what any other moral person would've said, talking about how gay rights should exist worldwide, and that he can't believe that some people would think otherwise.

Later on in the interview, however, the interviewer asks him if he'd seen the fans feeling more liberated after gay marriage was legalized in the United States. He noted that since that day, more and more rainbow signs and flags have been brought to their concerts-- but he thought it was because people think that Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles (two other band members) are in a relationship. He claimed that it "makes him go nuts" to see that.

What made this problematic is that the rainbow signs and flags weren't all about Larry Stylinson (Louis' and Harry's names put together), but it was about a fan project called Rainbow Direction (RD). RD was brought to life by a group of fans to help create a "safe space" for LGBT+ fans, meaning that if you had the RD Logo in your social media profile pictures, expressed your support online, brought rainbow signs and flags to concerts, or things of the like, then you were safe to be yourself and would be free from judgement and criticism around those people/situations.

What Liam said dismissed the whole initiative of RD, causing fans to feel alienated, hurt, and unsupported. I, too, was one who cried at the remarks that Liam made, because he thought that RD was about Larry Stylinson's relationship and "drove him mad," rather than a helpful, protective, supportive movement for LGBT+ fans.

What Liam did is in no way evil. He may have said some things that came out wrong, but that doesn't mean it was evil. He simply didn't understand what RD was, or maybe that it as a fan project even existed. What would be evil is if he said that he hates the fans that are part of the LGBT+ community and wished that they would represent themselves elsewhere. However, that is far from what he "said" in the article (quotations around "said" because there was speculation that what was printed in the magazine was a twisted, edited version of whatever Liam had really said to begin with). If Liam truly did say those things, then it was not a good move on his part, he made a mistake, but that doesn't make him evil. It does not fit under the "evil" umbrella.

Whether or not what Liam was quoted on was accurate or not, Harry Styles made sure to clear up the drama at their sold-out concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts last night.

"Here at One Direction, we love to celebrate love, in all forms. Love is love. We believe that love should be celebrated with open arms." With that, he proceeded to later run down the catwalk of the stage with a rainbow flag held high above his head, for the sixth show in a row.

What Harry did was good. This, along with the countless times he has expressed his support for the LGBT+ community through tweets showing support and sporting rainbow Pride bracelets, does fit under the "good" umbrella.