Patton Oswalt's Heartfelt Message In Response To Boston Bombings Goes Viral On Twitter And Facebook, Says "The Good Will Always Outnumber The Evil"

Last night, comedian and writer Patton Oswalt, known best for his TV role on The King of Queens and for films including Young Adult and Ratatouille, got serious alongside those reacting to the bombings at the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon, writing his thoughts on social media sites Facebook and Twitter.

On Twitter, the 44-year-old Oswalt quoted Mister Rogers on what he was told to do when bad things happen. The hopeful message has inspired thousands of retweets and favorites.

Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) tweeted, "'Look for the helpers. You'll always find people who are helping.' -- Fred Rogers, on what to do when scary things are on the news ‪#boston"

"'...seconds after the explosions, you see hundreds of people running TOWARDS the carnage to help. Not away.' -- Paul Kozlowski," Oswalt wrote. 

But Oswalt really opened up on Facebook, in a post that has gone viral. By not placing blame and keeping things positive, the message received national praise with 250,000 likes and nearly 190,000 shares so far. He shared his belief that good will always outweigh evil:

"I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.'

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'"

The reactions on Facebook have been overwhelmingly positive:

Cantrell Cheeks said, "The people who commit these horrific crimes want to see US breakdown and lose our respect, love, and hope for one another. Don't give them the satisfaction, as long as we have people in our society that's willing to commit these act, let's just keep hunting them down and putting them to death like we'd do any rabid animal that attack people."

Stephanie Avebury commented, "Thank you mr Oswalt. I too believe that the good we do leaves less room for evil."