there is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so! , disagree?

Question

i want more point which disagree to the topic for an essay(homework) for my college. help me guys n girls!!!:)

Answer 1

Worth: If there is no value (or worth) to anything, then it wouldn't make any difference if we preserved it or destroyed it.

Purpose: Things that serve no purpose have no worth. That we get from our human experience.

Purpose of life: None unless there is God:

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (find out about Russell here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell)

So without God, no purpose, no worth, no difference between any action. Without God, good and bad are meaningless which means we assign meaning arbitrarily. Mostly we don't think it so, we go by feelings.

Answer 2

To deny good and evil is to deny reality. Good implies positive results and bad implies negative results. Magnets have positive and negative poles which cause it to be useful as energy and bring about attraction and repulsion.
If everything were the same, then nothing would be unique. If everything were the same, then nothing would have names. What value has life if everything is the same?
If everyone were exactly the same, then would anyone matter? Good and bad are reflections of the differences between people and bring about value to human action and provides the basis for laws and justice.
How can anyone demand justice if nothing is ever wrong? If hurting someone is not any worse than helping someone, then destruction and creation would have to be the same wouldn't it?
Can you have your cake and eat it too? Painting a picture is not the same as erasing one is it?
How can you think at all without some parameters? The world is full of colors - not just black and white they say, but without a scale or a difference how can you tell?

Answer 3

Well no I agree with you. Human nudity is a good thing (it's how we were made) it is the thoughts that nudity provoke that are bad. Religion in itself is good, but the drastic measures some societies take to force it upon others make it seem very bad. So. I agree with you.

There is also a paper I did in college that was like this.
If there is a woman and she is nude walking down the street she is in all senses just a living work of art. Yet, somehow a nude woman can cause unpleasant thoughts is some and is greatly offensive to others. Can this woman's statement of her nakedness actually cause her to be raped or killed? Yes, because when one may think on her the thoughts and urges of these actions could have started a reaction to be put into play.

Answer 4

Even from the standpoint of Nietzsche: good means that which is advantageous to one's will.

Operating from a base of consistent principles, rather than like a frantic schizophrenic, imparts a definite survival advantage.

So even if you don't accept Good and Evil as Absolutes, and insist they're only Relative, you have to admit that self-discipline and codes of conduct are not only advantageous to ones survival, but often vital.

Not that I'm a Judeo-Christian, but I've never seen any body get into trouble with their lives because they chose to follow the Ten Commandments as their basic operating principle. The validity of the Ten Commandments is not necessarily because they "came from God," but because they work for humans quite well.

Answer 5

Even religion (the Bible) acknowledges the existence of good and evil.How would one be able to establish a morale compass? Understanding the relationship we as a species has we would have be able to distinguish between the two in order to have order or a consistency in regard to the way in which we behave towards one another. We have to be able to control the
id by means or our ego which would be governed by the superego ( the conscience). We are born with intelligence.Thinking and reasoning depends on our understanding of what each state of being exemplifies.

Answer 6

Neutrality. Hamlet. Shakespeare.

If you doing a paper on Hamlet, look for the irony. Just because the statement is true doesn't mean it should be used as justification of wrong. Just because you believe in the statement doesn't mean you will not think yourself into oblivion.

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy Horatio."

Answer 7

Disagree. Things are good or bad; that's it.

Answer 8

Not in the absolute sense.