Friday, January 20, 2006

Good and Bad

It has come to my terms to tackle the idea of what is good, and what is bad. What is good? Basically, it is something acceptable by the society, it is the norms of the people surrounding you. What is good in one group could be bad in the other group. With these bases, it could be easier to say that the word 'bad' is just a term to measure something that isn't good? That there is no such thing as bad thing. Only something that is not good. The term bad is just a term of a measurement of standard wherein you bypass the standard below the 'good' scale. The scale or the unit of measurement is good. Bad is a virtual thing and Good is the real thing. The same is true with darkness and light. How will you know if a room is dimly lighted, or brightly lighted? If a closed room has not a single light enters it, there is no possibility that you can increase the intensity of its darkness, but of course, you can increase the intensity of light in a room. Which means darkness is somewhat a term used to describe the absence of light. A room maybe dim, dark, or brightly lighted based upon the measurement of light or the intensity of light that fills it. Just like in temperature, it is virtually impossible to go beyond 450 picokelvin (the lowest recorded manmade temperature) because that is the farthest man can do to remove heat (kinetic energy of a molecule) from a single matter. Which, in parallel, agrees with the fact that there is no such thing as cold but mainly a term used to describe the absence of a specific amount of heat. Now, it’s your turn to propose this kind of argument between Good and Evil.

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