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<blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1305217" data-attributes="member: 7464"><p>Well, it seems clear to me. Assuming "Evil" and "Good" exist as separate, distinct forces, all we have to do is check and see which one is still around. After all this time, if one of them was greater, it should have defeated the other by now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p> </p><p>[The rest of this post is semi-philosophical ranting on the nature of good and evil and might not be relavent or even interesting]</p><p>I remember that somebody (famous, I think) once came up with a hypothetical description of the most totally evil person imaginable and the most totally good person imaginable. The evil person was about what you'd expect, cruel, horrible, evil to the core, etc..., EXCEPT, the final, clinching factor that made him the MOST evil person was that everybody thought he was good. Nobody ever witnessed his evil acts. In public he was always the perfect gentleman. In fact, he was so good in people's eyes that everybody in the world would have voted for him as the most GOOD person in the world. He was so evil he had fooled the entire world into thinking he was good.</p><p> </p><p>The ultimate good guy was just the opposite. He was good, pure, compassionate, etc... ad infinitum. Except that everybody in the world thought he was evil and wanted to kill him. In spite of all that, he was unswayed, undismayed, and kept on being good and doing good, even though he never got a bit of credit for it. The fact that he could untouched by that ultimate level of hatred is what makes him the most good person in the world. Nobody else could possibly stand it. Everybody in the world would have voted him as the most EVIL person in the world. </p><p>[/semi-philosophical rant]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MerakSpielman, post: 1305217, member: 7464"] Well, it seems clear to me. Assuming "Evil" and "Good" exist as separate, distinct forces, all we have to do is check and see which one is still around. After all this time, if one of them was greater, it should have defeated the other by now. :D [The rest of this post is semi-philosophical ranting on the nature of good and evil and might not be relavent or even interesting] I remember that somebody (famous, I think) once came up with a hypothetical description of the most totally evil person imaginable and the most totally good person imaginable. The evil person was about what you'd expect, cruel, horrible, evil to the core, etc..., EXCEPT, the final, clinching factor that made him the MOST evil person was that everybody thought he was good. Nobody ever witnessed his evil acts. In public he was always the perfect gentleman. In fact, he was so good in people's eyes that everybody in the world would have voted for him as the most GOOD person in the world. He was so evil he had fooled the entire world into thinking he was good. The ultimate good guy was just the opposite. He was good, pure, compassionate, etc... ad infinitum. Except that everybody in the world thought he was evil and wanted to kill him. In spite of all that, he was unswayed, undismayed, and kept on being good and doing good, even though he never got a bit of credit for it. The fact that he could untouched by that ultimate level of hatred is what makes him the most good person in the world. Nobody else could possibly stand it. Everybody in the world would have voted him as the most EVIL person in the world. [/semi-philosophical rant] [/QUOTE]
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