RE: does evil exist?
November 8, 2022 at 11:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2022 at 11:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do you mean linguistically or logically? Logically, morally...that which actually is inevitable, is necessary, as there is no other alternative. I think people hear the word necessary and think "what we need to do" but, ofc, logically, it means "what must be".
It is necessarrily true that if you start with two pennies, and take one penny away, you will be left with one penny. You don't -have- to take pennies away, there doesn't -have- to be any goal to take pennies...but if you do, this will be the result, and there is no alternative. Hence (and again only under some understandings of evil) the necessary evils of heterotrophy. It's not possible for a heterotroph to be other than a heterotroph (identity) and it's not possible for that heterotroph to avoid the specific (asserted) evil of heterotrophy, because heterotroph.
It is necessarrily true that if you start with two pennies, and take one penny away, you will be left with one penny. You don't -have- to take pennies away, there doesn't -have- to be any goal to take pennies...but if you do, this will be the result, and there is no alternative. Hence (and again only under some understandings of evil) the necessary evils of heterotrophy. It's not possible for a heterotroph to be other than a heterotroph (identity) and it's not possible for that heterotroph to avoid the specific (asserted) evil of heterotrophy, because heterotroph.
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