Where would good be without evil? Where would evil be without good?

Question

Is morality relative?

Answer 1

Your questions imply the answer. You're right. If we didn't have evil around we wouldn't have any incentive to learn and grow into better human beings. Evil is a challenge for us to grow and learn. We are all a bundle of both good and evil. Life would be very boring without the possibility of falling into the pit. (Of course, if you do fall in you can always climb out again.) And people who are so good and righteous that they never do anything wrong, never make a moral mistake, are very dull people who are not growing or going anywhere in their lives.

Answer 2

Good and evil must go togeher just like 2 sides of a coin. If there is no evil you do not know what is good. However, we should have more good in order to cancel out the evil. Morality is relative. It depends on the culture and practice of each place.

Answer 3

If morality is relative, then it doesn't matter what I do, so long as I think I'm doing good. Suppose that someone decides that murder is good, and then proceeds to act upon that belief by killing me. What if I did not believe that murder was good? In my view, murder is evil and being murdered is a bad thing. Who is right, the murderer or me, and how do you decide? Obviously, both sides cannot be right. Relative morality seems to work fine if you only consider minor issues, but if you take it to its full extent and apply it to major things (such as murder), it no longer rmakes any sense. I personally believe that absolute truth does exist. I believe in God, so I also believe in perfection, which I would define as ultimate good, the utter absence of evil. However, I realize that many people do not believe in God, nor do they believe there is absolute truth. I would challenge them, though, to explain how morality can always be relative, considering that there are so many conflicting interpretations of what is wrong and what is right.

Answer 4

Morality is not relative. There is good and there is evil. I love your question though, because the contrast is necessary for each to have their deepest value. Kindness, patience, generosity and humility have much more meaning and value when there is the choice of cruelty, impatience, selfishness and pride. Likewise, cruelty, impatience, selfishness and pride are all the worse because of the contrast. This is one of the reasons I feel we have free will, and why God created the potential for evil, to give true meaning and value to virtue. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to see how truly good good is and how truly evil evil is. There are degrees of good and evil, but morality is not relative.

Answer 5

There is no "good" and "evil" rather, it is Positives and Negatives we encounter. Morality is realative, if we balance things until there is harmony.

Answer 6

Yes, excellent question, you need both sides in order to balance the equation. In recent time the best explanation for this is the "matrix" The Architect in that scene does an awesome job of explaining the balanced that needs to be achieved for us to survive...How sad that we need death to appreciate life!!!

Answer 7

In a contextual box I see two-Good on Evil-but what do they cover? Can I pin it down, or is their oneness an illusion?

Answer 8

if nothing is evil then nothing is good. if nothing is good nothing is evil. the one cannot exist without the other.

Answer 9

there must be light and dark both, it should stay in balance, but seldom does. yes morality is reletive, most of your reletives arent all that moral

Answer 10

Evil is not neccessary going too far and too fast.
Everythings should be logical.