Do Good and Bad really exist, as moral values?

Answer 1

*agrees* Good and Evil are about as real as Law and Chaos, in the essence that they meerly are a reflections of each others self-identity.

All things in life have a balance, and to acheive that balance, all things require a polar opposite. To say one is evil or good, is to create an even greater imbalance. They're just two parts of the same whole.

Answer 2

When God's creations are referred to as "good" in the book of Genesis, I have come to believe that a more appropriate understanding of this reference is perfection. That is, his creations were not comparatively categorized on some arbitrary scale ranging from totally awesome to completely dreadful; instead, from nothingness was created all things, and it was good (perfect).

Indeed, for Good to exist universally, it must therefore define universal perfection...so that to every person, in any time, and from any perspective, the result remains unchanged.

So, to answer your question directly, these concepts exist only to the extent that perfection exists...they are simply different sides of the same coin. Good and Bad (or Evil) dwell within perfection, otherwise, they would surrender to subjectivity or simple point of view.

Answer 3

Only good is a gospel value. Good is a moral virtue too and bad is the opposite of good. Bad is not a moral value but the opposite of what is good. If a person does "good" then there is goodness but when a person does not do good then he is doing the opposite of "good" and that is "bad".

Answer 4

No. Good and bad are just reflections of our idea of good and evil.

The good and evil that you see don't even exist in reality, at least not outside of the mind that believes in them. They are only judgments passed by the individual from their own unique perspective. What one person sees as bad or evil may seem to be the only logical thing to do from some other perspective. The ideas of both good and evil are point of view specific. This is why people like bush and bin laden are either loved or hated. Bush is seen as good by people who share his fear based thought system. Those who have a compassionate concern for all of mankind often see him as evil.

Bin laden is much the same. He is a villain in much of the western world, but he is somewhat of a celebrated pop star on the Middle East. There are T-shirt shops that sell items with his picture as though he was Jesus. It all depends on your point of view or perspective.

To sum it all up good is the name we give to people who do things that we think we like.

Evil is the name we give to people who do the things that we don’t like.

This is of course based solely on our particular point of view.

Love and blessings

Don

Answer 5

They are opposite sides to the same coin. For every good there is the bad. Eat achicken, good for you, bad for the chicken. Like carrots, you take them from the rabbit.

Answer 6

Good & evil are just abstract ideas until someone makes them concrete through their behaviour. People commit evil acts or they do acts of goodness & kindness. So yes these exist. Society's laws as well as religious laws & our own consciences govern our behaviour, telling us right from wrong, good from bad.

Answer 7

I absolutely believe that good and bad really exist. that's why we as people have developed justice systems, cause we know that there are somethings that people just should not do. (killing people, rape, stealing (private property isnaother debatE))

bad in necessary for us to have free will. you cant made good choices if there are not bad choice possibilities.

Answer 8

Not really. Good and bad are just opinions. More people may hold the one opinion but in the end good and bad are just opinions neither right or wrong

Answer 9

Whether they exist or not , do only good to others .

Answer 10

As you act, the Will is positive and the Judgment is negative.