Think also about what would happen to bad!
2007-11-16 00:37:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If there wasn't good in the first place we would exist probably similar to the animal kingdom. There would be no bad either. Everything would just be survival. The weak would die off.
2007-11-16 00:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by The Voice of Reason 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really cannot imagine a world without good or bad. But if I were to think theoretically, I think that if good doesnt exist, the bad would rule the world. Still, that doesnt make sense because almost everything in the world have an antonym. Like ugly and beautiful, calm and agitated, etc.... It's how the world exist.
2007-11-16 01:02:32 · answer #2 · answered by mkc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Extrinsic or instrumental goodness depends for its existence upon some object, end or purpose which it serves. It derives its being from its service as an instrument in promoting or sustaining some more ultimate good and finally some ultimate or intrinsic good. It is good which is good for something."
The object or end purpose of which good is good for something implies a value that is good. That is the object.
Theoretically, life is good. Therefore, whatever it was that created (according to natural law) what we call "life" was good--good for the existence of life, including ours. Without "good which is good for something" we would not exist. Nor would the deer, the algae, or bacteria.
2007-11-16 00:51:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If there were no definitions, the patterns would reestablish themselves. As long as the twin delusions of binary thinking and the concept of separateness of lives predominates thought, behavior patterns will remain unchanged.
2007-11-16 00:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Isn't good really just a manmade creation to categorize actions and events?
If there was no good, there could be no bad, because good is better than bad, so if anybody did something bad, like kill three people, a person who only killed one would be good.
2007-11-16 00:46:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Good would still be the high objective because of assuring longer term benefit and bad would still be mostly done in view of the immediate term compulsions!!
2007-11-16 00:44:25 · answer #6 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There will be no difference. All will be the same. There will be no good and evil. No heaven and hell. No answers and questions. You see, they are partners in crime. You cannot have one if there is no the other. It is ebony and ivory.
Thanks for asking. Have a great day!
2007-11-16 00:46:41 · answer #7 · answered by Third P 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Without 'good' there cannot be 'bad' because something that is 'bad' is something with an absence of good, and and absece of neutral.
Ah, neutral. Everything becomes apathy.
Apathy, neutrality, irrelevance, insignificance.
Without 'good' and 'bad' nobody would have gone anywhere in life or species progress..
2007-11-16 00:42:42 · answer #8 · answered by shadowrench 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋