Can good exist without evil?

[Ori]

I believe it can't, the reason why is that everything has a balance, we cannot know good without experiencing evil, we would have no morality, or choice.

What do you think?

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Can good exist with out evil.
Yes. it exists in God.
Nowhere else is that perfect. so Good and evil coexist.

Terry
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Blessed are the merciful, mercy shall be shown unto them.

 

[TrueQ]

Good can exist without evil. I would prefer it didn't, of course, since that would mean that all my freewill and choice as a human would be stripped away. There are some things out there that are more important that 'good', and one of them is freedom.

Lol, who can tell I'm caught up in the spirit of Independence Day?

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Good can exist without evil. I would prefer it didn't, of course, since that would mean that all my freewill and choice as a human would be stripped away. There are some things out there that are more important that 'good', and one of them is freedom.

Lol, who can tell I'm caught up in the spirit of Independence Day?

Freedom depends on good for it's existance not evil.

Terry
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Blessed are the merciful, mercy shall be shown unto them.

 

[TrueQ]

How's that? True freedom of choice encompasses the ability to choose whatever action you want. SInce parts of it are interpreted as both sides, then it is dependent on the existence of both good and evil. If good disappeared, freedom of choice would, if evil disappeared, then likewise. Its possible to supress freedom of choice in order to spread evil, I agree. But its also possible to supress freedom of choice for good using laws, missionaries, in fact most of society. All of those things limit the amount of freedom people can express, while at the same time introducing a lot of good into the world.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

How's that? True freedom of choice encompasses the ability to choose whatever action you want. SInce parts of it are interpreted as both sides, then it is dependent on the existence of both good and evil. If good disappeared, freedom of choice would, if evil disappeared, then likewise. Its possible to supress freedom of choice in order to spread evil, I agree. But its also possible to supress freedom of choice for good using laws, missionaries, in fact most of society. All of those things limit the amount of freedom people can express, while at the same time introducing a lot of good into the world.

Freedom is not the same as freedom of choice.
freedom of choice includes good and evil.
the state of Freedom is the result of good.
Terry
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Blessed are the merciful, mercy shall be shown unto them.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

Yes, good could exist without evil, but we would not understand it, because there would be nothing to compare it to.

 

[michel]

Yes, good could exist without evil, but we would not understand it, because there would be nothing to compare it to.

I think it is more a case of we would'nt appreciate good if evil did not exist - or beauty if ugliness didn't exist............

 

[Ronule]

I don't believe in good or evil. I feel that they are just human perceptions of the world.

 

[Unedited]

Good doesn't exist.

 

[andyjamal]

Evil in and of itself does not actually exist. There are only relative absences of good which we label as evil. For, all existence is God's creation and is therefore good; because, God is the essence of good and the world of creation is a manifestion of God.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

What is evil? Something we as human being find "wrong". Im sure that, hypothetically speaking, if thier was only what most would call "good", the human race would still find something to call "evil." So allthough they are both nothing more than labels, they still exist as things to compare and contrast, which is something that gets beat into the human mind.

 

[Neo-Logic]

Balance is a peculiar business. Both evil and good are one another's foil. By their very meaning, one cannot exist without the opposite side contradicting it. That void of opposition must be and always is filled.

 

[Crystallas]

Yes it can exist without evil, as evil can exist without good. But we would never know it.

 

[Neo-Logic]

Yes it can exist without evil, as evil can exist without good. But we would never know it.

How do you think a world without evil and solely good can be achieved? Without evil, our very meaning of what "good" is will become skewed. Just as a world full of males or females cannot exist without the other opposite sex to compliment it, neither can evil nor good without the other side to oppose one anothers prescence.

 

[michel]

I don't think good can exist without evil - just as dark can't exist without light; there is a 'natural' opposite to everything in nature

 

[michel]

I don't believe in good or evil. I feel that they are just human perceptions of the world.

Good and evil are the way we interpret adaptive and maladaptive trends - from our own perspective.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

Good and evil exists as illusions in our head, caused by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

 

[Scott1]

Good and evil exists as illusions in our head, caused by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

So, good and evil are illusions, but this tree is real? Where exactly is this dastardly tree?

 

[bratty]

In the bible, it implys that we are inherently evil. However, what God initially created was good. God gave us choices. We chose to go the way of evil. Therefore, evil came out of the good. After Adam, evil prevailed on earth. The only time we will see pure goodness is after we die and go to heavenor until Christ returns.

Answer is, Evil can't prevail without Good.