Good And Evil.

[Reach]

Re: Good And Evil.

Sure. Good can exist in any context. You just have to change the definition.

It's an arbitrary definition anyway.


But what I think you're asking is an unfair question. How can you get rid of bad in the first place if you can't define it? You can't, which is why the question is sort of a paradox.

If you had a perfect definition of evil, and you removed evil, there could obviously still be good.

[FictionJunction]

Re: Good And Evil.

Well, I was confusing myself today with a simple question. If there were no bad in the world, would good still exist? Some might jump right away and say yes, citing examples such as, you can still be rich and happy, yet, you would be happy and poor since there is no more bad. If you terminate the bad, you terminate the opposite of good, therefore making there be nothing other than good. So really good would exist, it just wouldn't be AS good as it was before, when there was bad... Right?

I wouldn't see 'good' and 'evil' as immediate opposites.
Fights, wars, disputes, etc, are all bound by perspectives. 'Good' is merely one of these perspectives, while 'evil' is another. If there's any possible way you could classify 'evil' as, it would have to be 'an absence of good.'
Now, this would leave a new question at hand. What is 'good'? Yet another perspective issue. Whatever is good in our society will remain as such within our society, whereas it might not if these same tendencies, actions, scnearios were to be seen in another.
Either way, the only 'evil' that would be present would be the opposite of whatever is to be considered 'good' by certain group of people.
And it's impossible to eliminate 'evil.' Sorry.

[MixMasterLar]

Re: Good And Evil.

W/O good, there is no evil, but you cant get rid of evil in the first place.

I dont want to sound, as most people say it, 'retarded', but the Bible says all that is not correct.

if you want me to go on, then say so. otherwise, I'll let you find out what I think is the right answer.

[this_n00b_rocks]

Re: Good And Evil.

wat the hell are you guys talking bout evil and good lol!!

Notice: What is this section called? Critical thinking. Shut up and go to the game thread where you belong, you noob (don't even bring up my name).

On topic: What happens if evil is gone? Wouldn't all of the said evil things in the world become good? Our world would become very distorted.

[FictionJunction]

Re: Good And Evil.

On topic: What happens if evil is gone? Wouldn't all of the said evil things in the world become good? Our world would become very distorted.

Evil being 'the absence of good' would solely depend on 'good' itself. Both concepts are perspectives.
Thing is, what people don't consider is the fact that whatever 'evil' action an 'evil' person is doing, is in the end, 'good' in their perspective, whereas it is not in the eyes of said 'evil' person's opponents.
'Good' and 'evil' vary. They're not definite.
Perspectives differ from one another; we will never live in a world where people follow one main concept of what's 'good' and what's 'evil,' fr these things are interchangeable.

[this_n00b_rocks]

Re: Good And Evil.

Evil being 'the absence of good' would solely depend on 'good' itself. Both concepts are perspectives.
Thing is, what people don't consider is the fact that whatever 'evil' action an 'evil' person is doing, is in the end, 'good' in their perspective, whereas it is not in the eyes of said 'evil' person's opponents.
'Good' and 'evil' vary. They're not definite.
Perspectives differ from one another; we will never live in a world where people follow one main concept of what's 'good' and what's 'evil,' fr these things are interchangeable.

True. Al Queda (or however the hell you spell their name) believed it was 'good' to fly planes into the WTC. In our views, it was evil.

[-Izzy-]

Re: Good And Evil.

If there was no evil there just wouldnt be any refrence to determine what good was. It just would be. So no, "good" in a sense wouldnt exist.

[tsugomaru]

Re: Good And Evil.

You can't really say that good and evil does not exist. They do, but there is no outline for it except for those that we set for ourselves. It is only the way we percieve things that determine good and bad. To say there is no more bad in a world would say that everyone thinks the same and that would be a really bleak world.

~Tsugomaru

[slipstrike0159]

Re: Good And Evil.

Which is all derived of agency. People have different perspectives and concepts of agency but they can all pretty much feel what is good and evil. That mainly came from the tree of knowledge in the garden of eden, before eating from it adam and eve were CONTENT not necessarily happy or sad. The way i see it, if you were to take away one of the sides (which is shown to be nearly impossible) then you would have to do it by losing your sense of perception basically making you oblivious to everything and also very ignorant. It would be like acheiving nirvana. However, all of this is irrelevant because it is impossible for us to change what has happened to give us our feelings on whether things are good or not, and if we didnt have those feelings we wouldnt be talking about it.