I'm not condoning any evil deeds. What I'm saying is that if evil did not exist, how could one possibly know what good was? If all we had was good, would you know that it was good? Can one exist without the other?
2006-10-17 20:04:43 · 24 answers · asked by Too Cool For Me 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Quite true, for comparison atleast we need the other.
A person dwelling on the planet Sun, would never even know what is light, due to absence of darkness !
2006-10-17 21:09:18 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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According to Isaiah 45:6-7, God created Evil: I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create EVIL: I the Lord do all these things. Evil as a concept is probably just religious, and means something other than what the leaders of the religion demand of the followers, which they attribute as coming from the deity or deities. I don't think there is absolute Good or absolute Evil. We can define things as one or the other according to whether they benefit us or our communities or are detrimental to us or our communities. I don't think that they are actual entities, or even mathematical opposites.
2016-04-08 08:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are extremes to good and evil. If there was no good, evil would just exist, yet there would be different extremes to evil. The lesser extremes of evil would become good, and the greater extreme of evil would stay evil. Therefore, there will be good and evil forever, but the level of good and evil would change.
2015-12-14 09:05:34 · answer #3 · answered by Nathan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have Good without evil. The theist believes in a Perfectly Good God, and they also believe that God made the world, what we know today. IF that is true and you agree with that then you see that there was once a time that there was only God, A perfectly good being. Therefore there was good without evil.
2014-05-06 14:01:05 · answer #4 · answered by Randy 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually if all we had was good some of it would be considered evil.
Example: Let's say that a farmer has 100 apples. He chooses the 50 good to sell them to the grocer and throws the rest away as bad.
The grocer chooses the 30 good and discards the rest as bad.
You go and choose the 10 best to buy and leave the bad.
If I had to choose from those ten wouldn't I find some good and some bad.
My conclusion is that there is always a lot of good in evil.
2006-10-17 23:36:18 · answer #5 · answered by Divra 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. Without evil there would be no concept of good. Everything needs its opposite in order to exist as a concept. Day needs night, male needs female, yin & yang etc.
2006-10-17 20:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just wonder whether even without evil, we could still have good, better, best. That is, defining not by opposite, but by the degree.
2006-10-17 20:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If you removed the language barriers, good would be something positive in your thought process which involves your conscious. That conscious thought of pleasure could prove as well that you have a self purpose as well a God, a creator that placed that in you from birth. The evil comes from man, not nature. Man is inherent in evil doings since the beginning and thus it is seen as an opposite. Example, Cain killed Able, jealousy etc.
Think of evil as a thing and not an opposite. Think of good as your natural response, light and dark are prime examples. They are natural occurrences, not opposites.
2006-10-17 23:21:19 · answer #8 · answered by AJ 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's like asking if you can live in harmony without balance. Look around you.
Human gods, fears, ideals, icons and idols come and go. Right and wrong, good and evil, hip square, what's in or out, change like seasons. The question is redundant to our circumstance.
For you or anyone or in fact any species to answer this question we must embrace natural cadence. Be industrious indigenous. Share accordingly, not according to shares. Ensure the needs of the many are met before the wants of the few. Apply available resources toward communal probability and encounter endless possibility. Within mutually considerate orientation.
Until we do this question will remain mute.
In short stop worrying about bullshit like this.
You know the difference most of the time and most people know the difference most of the time, the debate is just an excuse.
2006-10-17 21:03:09 · answer #9 · answered by richardnattress 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
In western society there's this thing called "binary oppositions", of which you can't have a thing without its opposite. In eastern culture, the good and evil thing is not as well defined, there's no such thing as real evil and no such thing as real good.
2006-10-17 20:09:49 · answer #10 · answered by Janji 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋