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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1658799" data-attributes="member: 6929">I define 'good' in two ways.First, doing what is right. Animal instincts and population dynamics are therefore Good, as are quantum physics.Second, progression towards undeniable perfection: infinite diversity in infinite combinations describes this state very well. No matter what you think is good, it's there. This ties in very nicely with evolutionary theory: life diversifies and exploits niches, and thus progresses towards this IDIC state.Then I say that 'evil' is divergence from good.So destruction, reduction of complexity, and doing things that are just wrong are Evil. A wolf that eats its own leg because it had eaten its fill of deer - it makes no sense, doesn't it? That's Evil. An electron that attracts other electrons is also Evil in a kind of incomprehensible way - it shouldn't do that!Evil gets more complicated when you realise that most of it is sourced in the desire to do good. Eugenics is a dirty word today, but what does it literally mean? 'Good inheritance'. American colonists were able to put down the natives because they were obviously less important than themselves (quite officially, too). A psychopath unable to empathise with others acts to satisfy himself, because it's more efficient than trying to do good to the ungrateful worms around him.By this definition (and it is only a definition, albeit one I think is important), all things are evil to some degree or anothe, even if it's simply a failure to bring about IDIC - but are necessary to form a greater perfection, the aforementioned IDIC. Is that an excuse for evil? Nope; the top of an infinite staircase cannot be reached by cutting off your legs. But you can reach the bottom by jumping off the top.I'm getting philisophical, so I'll stop. But that's what I believe.</blockquote>

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