2007-02-03 10:40:48 · 12 answers · asked by KaThErInE XoX KiTt XoX KaTt 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Here is an unconventional answer to your question that you will find perhaps interesting.
Good exists, it has a source from which it emanates. Bad does not exist, there is no source for bad because bad is only the absence of good.
A metaphor will illustrate the point. Light exists, there is a planet that sends us light. Darkness does not exist, there is no planet sending us darkness. Darkness is just the absence of light. Imagine you enter a room full of darkness, the moment you flip a switch all the darkness disappears instantly and all the darkness in the universe has no power to turn off this light.
Good actions have their source in the moral values acquired by a person. The source is the effort and energy the person has spent during a lifetime to acquire them. Bad is just the lack of moral values.
Consider kindness. Kindness is a virtue and emanates from a person that has made a conscious effort to polish his character and acquire this virtue. Cruelty which is the opposite and is considered bad, is the absence of kindness. It is just a lack of virtue.
2007-02-03 10:59:34 · answer #1 · answered by apicole 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pretty trying times to be asking such a question.
The biggest problem good has is often, just due to the nature of being good, evil has the power to pull things off before we know what is happening. Evil will take advantage of trust and innocence without a qualm. So it is great to be good, by studying your own ethics and motivations, but always be aware of the potential downfalls that evil can create for you. This is the reason so many young people fall into trouble, for example. They enter a bad situation, naively... thinking they know it all. Alas, they are soon in deep trouble as often as not because they had no concept of what they were into.
We live on a planet currently involved in a huge war between good and evil forces. The evil promoting these things transcends religions, it transcends nationalities. These things are the differences used to foster more evil on the planet. These are the tools of evil, its final intention to divide and conquer mankind by weakening us through separation and hatred. Besides greed, what else explains the insanity that we are dealing with now. This is a time of extreme irrationality. Evil sews its seeds deeply. Sadly humans are providing it with fertile ground. We are at a crux right now and it is not looking too good for us at the moment.
I wish I could play Pollyanna and give a simplistic "yes" but I fear that is being naive. I could quote some stuff from the Bible or the Torah or the Qu'ran to back my words up. But that would be silly.
Things are just too complicated. Good will not conquer if we do not DO SOMETHING to make the world a better place. With the music, the fashions, the breaking up of family units and hence of nations, the war between religions and nations over greed and trivial philosophical differences, evil has gained a serious foothold on our planet. A very serious foothold.
If you want good to conquer you have to be proactive, not sit by passively and hope, or even pray. That is not enough. Only this way will good stand a chance of coming out ahead. Many of us have faced true evil in our lives and it is a terrifying thing. It was only by making the best of the situation and not backing down ... unless that was sure death... that we survived.
And then there is the fact that often, due to the wonderful diversity of cultures on our planet, often one person's good is another person's evil. How do you factor that into the equation? There are of course many evil things that ALL people have in common.
Let me think of taxes LOL.
There is no simple yes or no answer to this. Nor is it any good to turn to a God for answers. We have to take action ourselves. Yes all prayer to the God of your choice is wonderful. Positive thinking is wonderful. But when it comes to something this dark, eternal vigilance and proaction is necessary. Even then the outcome may not succeed. There are no absolutes.
Alas good only consistently conquers over evil in romance books and story tales.
2007-02-03 19:08:05 · answer #2 · answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David, i have to disagree. Evil has all the power, without evil, there would be no good. Evil acts are what make other acts look good in comparison.
Good does not always conquer evil, because look at all the horrible things happening on this planet. Millions of people have died defending or fighting in the name of religious beliefs, and neither side thought they were evil.
9/11 is a good example, America believed this to be a evil act, but many other groups apparently thought that it was a justified attack.
Evil is in the eye of the offended.
2007-02-03 19:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by jezusjones 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In our minuscule understanding we must have some balance, a beginning, an ending, good and evil, one cannot exist without the other. Within a capable and intelligent life form lies the potential of 'good' actions and 'evil' actions.
To directly answer your question, evil as we know it was spawned by an exiled angel named Lucifer (the devil). Lucifer was created by God and was the most powerful angel in heaven. The 'end' that you speak of may be the 'final battle' between good and evil. The good and righteous, and in God's case, 'Pure', retain insurmountable power. Think of it this way, isn't it almost always more difficult to do the 'Right' thing? It requires more inner strength to do good things and 'deny' evil.
God is pure in goodness and is more powerful than the devil and all his followers combined. And in any sense, any good is stronger than any evil.
So yes, good will always conquer evil, in the end.
2007-02-03 22:24:33 · answer #4 · answered by Benevolent Enigma 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bad starts off with help from the good. Bad does not exist when good in their role has not falter in disgrace. Giving the bad, an opportunity to thrive with no restriction and further deterioration of the good will only see the bad in rampant growth.
On the other hand, a change from bad to good is always possible, when the influence of good over the other has greater assertion. Since good has greater proportion over the bad, generally so, looking around you bear this testament, no way in this case that bad will be the winner in the end. Moreover, not many people would like to be bad given the right set of circumstances.
2007-02-03 20:41:47 · answer #5 · answered by cheng 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes good will always conquer evil in the end and if you think on it is it any wonder when we were created by a God that can not stand sin that god being good and always in control of all things would allow good to always win.
2007-02-03 21:30:40 · answer #6 · answered by billc4u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The existence of God is nonsense without the existence of Evil. Is like the Yim-Yam, the poles of the same battery or love and hate.
2007-02-03 20:02:13 · answer #7 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Those daleks always come back!
Outside of the Church of Doctor Who, one man's good is another man's evil, just as one person's Jackson Pollock painting is another's puke stain. It all depends on what you think is good, and what is evil.
2007-02-03 21:05:08 · answer #8 · answered by beztvarny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because evil has no power and good has infinite power.
2007-02-03 18:51:32 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i believe that
i try to be my best with everybody and in every station even with the mean, bcz i always get rewarded somehow at the end
2007-02-03 18:47:41 · answer #10 · answered by L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋