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2006-07-07 15:15:55 · 27 answers · asked by cyphr189 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

27 answers

yes. he existed before the devil turned evil, didn't he?

2006-07-07 15:25:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Without getting religious, good is a relative term.
It is interesting to me, on the religious side of the argument, that when the world was created (according to quite a few religious histories) that it was pronounced good. Evil hadn't been on the scene yet, so there was nothing to base it on. From a monotheistic historical perspective that would mean God owns the word as to what is good, and doesn't need evil's contrast it make it apparent. Or even the contrast of bad (as opposed to evil)
And on an empirical front, I do think I am more appreciative of good provided a certain experience and distance from evil / bad experience. This tells me evil can make good obscure, and that good is more readily accessible in the absence of evil.

2006-07-07 22:36:11 · answer #2 · answered by Josie 2 · 0 0

Well, there'd be nothing there to compare it with, but there will always be good and evil. Evil can't very well not exist. If there are 2 people, one will consider themselves good, the other evil. There are different degrees of good and evil. You have absolute evil like Satan, and relative evil like osama. Evil would exist because somebody would be more evil than the other. It's just how it works.

2006-07-07 22:20:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

To a certain extent, yes. There are various gradients of 'good' and 'evil.' What we call 'good' right now is only good because of the comparison we have with 'evil.' However, if you were to remove 'evil', then 'good' would still exist. The catch is we would no longer recognize it as 'good'. It would instead be 'normal'.

2006-07-07 22:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by vtpoetchic 2 · 0 0

If We Were All Insane
We'd All Be Sane

You Must Have Darkness
To Understand That There Is Light

Evil Creates The Balance Needed
To Have Good

2006-07-07 22:19:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No because "evil" only exists in the absense of Good. Without Good you have evil. Remember when God created the earth and he said "It was Good" Until Satan came along as the serpent.

2006-07-07 22:18:32 · answer #6 · answered by Bad Boy 2 · 0 0

The Yin/Yang theories here are dead on. It's all about perspective and experience. Does a newborn know the difference? I would submit it does. It knows when it's happy and therefore sad, immediately showing facial expressions identifying these basic emotions.

Later we learn Good from Bad/Evil. You need to have both sides. Stop/Start, On/Off, Good/Evil. They are mandatory pairs.

2006-07-07 22:21:43 · answer #7 · answered by JT 1 · 0 0

Yeah, Good Exists with out evil all the time.

And if it did, it would be called world peace.

....people just dont think enough when it comes to abstract thoughts.

But yeah If there was world peace, there wouldnt be any evil, and if there wasnt any evil everybody would be happy....like they were once.

Evil has another name, we like to call it Drama.

Life with out Drama is perfect.

Drama is evil...

Yep. See I told you people I know everything!

2006-07-07 23:56:20 · answer #8 · answered by zodiac_xxxx19 2 · 0 0

No , Simply put ;it's a balance; everything must fluctuate , just imagine if nothing bad ever happened: to a point you would go out of your mind just to see any stimuli whatsoever (good without bad =routine day without any possibility of change for the rest of your life and vice versa ), Like before though it's very hard to explain in some cases

2006-07-07 22:21:16 · answer #9 · answered by Rick O 1 · 0 0

Sure. It would be a lot harder to measure, though.

Then, whatever was farthest away from the "most goodest thing ever" would eventually be branded as evil by comparison. And round it goes.

That's why I'm always making a big show out of eating live baby ducks. Then, see, when I take your wallet, it doesn't look so bad.

2006-07-07 22:19:43 · answer #10 · answered by obrian93 2 · 0 0

It's cheesy to answer this with a line from a comic book, but, to paraphrase "If the bad didn't happen, how would you know the good was good?" I believe that if evil had never existed, then "good" would just be "normal".

2006-07-07 22:19:03 · answer #11 · answered by hallidaelennon 1 · 0 0

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