(June 27, 2017 at 1:21 pm)SteveII Wrote:(June 27, 2017 at 12:09 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Evil is not the absence of good. It is the opposite of good. It is negative good. It is anti-good. The absence of good is the same as the absence of evil: neutrality.
Thank you for correcting my phrasing. I agree with you.
I will just expand on this, now that I'm not on my mobile.
Neutrality in the face of evil can be at least as evil, if only in intent. For instance, if I closed the door on a rapist and leave him to his act, knowing what suffering is occurring but choosing to do nothing about it, I would be just as culpable as the rapist (if not more so).
I don't think there is a comparable state in the face of good.
(Bonus kudos to anyone spotting the inadvertent Doctor Who reference.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
