Is Bad Inevitably For The Good?

Question

Is everything we do for the better, even if it is sometimes bad?

Answer 1

No, if we choose to do something bad, it remains bad. If something good comes of it, that's fortunate but it's not inevitable.

If you murder somebody, it will not be for the good but it will inevitably lead to suffering.

The danger with abstracting yourself from humanity by your thoughts is that we lose track of the obvious. We can philosophise all we want about such things but trying to look at our negative behaviour and see positive where it doesn't exist is just ridiculously superior.

The fact is, we may eventually draw conclusions and learn from the bad things that happen but that is out of necessity rather than inevitability.

Everything you do may lead you to an inevitable fate but that's not always a positive one.

Would you like to think that negative actions lead to positive results so you can justify committing negative acts and say to yourself that what you are doing is for the good? Believe me, there are some sad types who do just that kind of thing and usually idealise about a perfect world where everyone is good.... at least, good in their eyes.

The only time a negative act is necessary is to counter another negative act or to prevent another negative act from happening.

The answer to your question is no, the only thing inevitable about bad acts is that bad will come of them.

Answer 2

Look at it from a Lemmings point of view. Jumping off a cliff is really BAD for the Lemming, (especially for the one's at the front of the line) but inevitably GOOD for the little bleeders at the back..... more grass to eat, seeds etc. There comes a point, in the line, where a transition is made, otherwise BAD inevitable leads them all to Lemming heaven. Too much BAD is bad. But without BAD, no Lemmings would be around to appreciate the GOOD. Got nothing against Lemmings by the way.

Answer 3

I think the definition of "Bad" and "Good" can get very blurry, for instance, Hitler was an evil person, but he changed the world, and the way we look at it, but it took years for the changes to be seen as a good thing, some of the changes were not so good, but it taught everyone a lesson, and the economies of Germany and Japan and their influence on the world via technology has been monumental, the fact that women worked in men's jobs brought the case for equality along in leaps and bounds, the way wars are fought now, with as few casualities as possible is due to the vast and pointless loss of life in the last war, the "Global Village" mentality that is catching on would not have been possible without such a catalyist and the technology that started through a desire to kill off germans has brought us a long way, plus the healthy cynicism that we now have for governmental policies is due to the monumental lies told during that time, people no longer believe everything they are told.

so yeah bad can be a catalyist for good, its just tough when it happens!

Answer 4

Every one of us is controlled by the power within. The power within can be good or evil. The power within creates thoughts and thoughts lead to actions. The control of these tiny powers within must be from a super natural and ultimate power - may be as every one calls - God or in my language The Creator.

Just good alone will not make a world. Bad too is needed. For that purpose the evil powers are used. A person who did a good thing now, within few moments he goes for an evil act. What is important for the Creator is the ultimate effect of the move. He gets it done though someone. Many times the destruction too is for Good. Many times the death is for Good. But we look at the matter from our narrow perspective and cannot see the whole issue as a chain of incidents or actions.

My opinion on this matter is "everything happened is for good only". The ultimate good. There may be many bads in the line of progress. Those who perish are to be perished. Even Jesus was to be crucified for an ultimate good.

Answer 5

In the broadest sense of bad, no, of course not. Think of all the terrible, sometimes pointless, things people and states do. These things happen despite the perpetrators knowledge that they are wrong. There is no learning or redemption to justify the deed. If we are talking more at a personal level however, it is of benefit to explore our personal boundaries - for the majority of us this does not take us into areas which we cannot work our way through if we are strong enough.

Answer 6

No. Sometimes we have to choose the lesser of two evils, but unless we are moral imbeciles we know what we are doing, why, and realise that it IS a choice of evils. As for the idea of 'inevitability,' I think that most evil in the world results from a failure of understanding.

Answer 7

bad and good...two opposites, perceived differently by individuals.. There is good and bad where majority agree upon...Lets say war is bad peace is good..everyone know it from thwe childhood, no exceptions...Is any changes happening? Nope. It will be those whom will justify war...there is always reasonable meanings we may find...If bad is inevitably for the Good there will be those whom will call that Good a bad thing...and they will be reasonable for themselves and will be opposed by those whom disagree...Man, there is no Truth in all of this...Truth will be found on a deeper level of understanding...

Answer 8

It's like road-runner cartoons. The road runner wouldn't get all that free food if it wasn't for the coyote. But the coyote never wins, because the whole thing is in the hands of the cartoonist. Our world is in the hands of its creator. Let's just hope he/she doesn't get fed up, erase it, and start over.

Answer 9

Um - no. It's a little hard to see what good came directly from, for example, the Nazis' attempt to exterminate all the Jews in Europe.

Answer 10

I think you are misquoting from Voltaire´s "Candide": "Everything´s for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds".

Of course it isn´t.