Good and Evil aren’t some mythical power or taint on one’s soul or actions. They’re not equal eternal powers, no matter how comforting it may be to think there’s some grand celestial war of morality.
The whole world wasn’t good in the beginning, it just, was. Indifferent. The natural world just is, no good or evil, just existence. Only when conscious thought enters into things can morality and ethics exist.
The idea of Evil as an absence of good is silly. You see homeless people on the street, do you stop and help every single one? Is simply knowing they exist and refusing to go out of your way to help enough to be Evil? Is the failure to provide meaningful help at every single opportunity enough to be branded as evil? It’s an absence of good certainly, but calling every failure to impart good itself evil is an absurdity.
Good and Evil aren’t some mythical power or taint on one’s soul or actions. They’re not equal eternal powers, no matter how comforting it may be to think there’s some grand celestial war of morality.
The whole world wasn’t good in the beginning, it just, was. Indifferent. The natural world just is, no good or evil, just existence. Only when conscious thought enters into things can morality and ethics exist.
The idea of Evil as an absence of good is silly. You see homeless people on the street, do you stop and help every single one? Is simply knowing they exist and refusing to go out of your way to help enough to be Evil? Is the failure to provide meaningful help at every single opportunity enough to be branded as evil? It’s an absence of good certainly, but calling every failure to impart good itself evil is an absurdity.