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<blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 6382997" data-attributes="member: 16760">True.&nbsp; Like I said, the analogy between disease and evil wasn't perfect.&nbsp; Though the fact of entropy, decay, and death does raise other interesting questions that I can't go into here.What a materialist would do with that, I don't know - though he could know the good without being able to account for it.&nbsp; I'm not a materialist.It may exist, but I think it is assuredly wrong.&nbsp; Moral evil (as opposed to physical evil like entropy and death), as I said, is always directed toward good ends.&nbsp; Nobody seeks intrinsically evil ends - nobody.&nbsp; It's impossible.&nbsp; In order even to exist, evil needs goodness;&nbsp; while the reverse is not true.Whether or not evil is more prevalent, it is necessarily ontologically anterior to the good.That's one thing I liked about 4e's cosmology:&nbsp; that devils were corrupted angels, and demons were corrupted elementals.&nbsp; (I don't insist on them being elementals, but for purposes of discussion, corrupted *something*.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shadow, post: 6382997, member: 16760"] True. Like I said, the analogy between disease and evil wasn't perfect. Though the fact of entropy, decay, and death does raise other interesting questions that I can't go into here. What a materialist would do with that, I don't know - though he could know the good without being able to account for it. I'm not a materialist. It may exist, but I think it is assuredly wrong. Moral evil (as opposed to [I]physical[/I] evil like entropy and death), as I said, is always directed toward good ends. Nobody seeks intrinsically evil ends - nobody. It's impossible. In order even to exist, evil needs goodness; while the reverse is not true. Whether or not evil is more prevalent, it is necessarily ontologically anterior to the good. That's one thing I liked about 4e's cosmology: that devils were corrupted angels, and demons were corrupted elementals. (I don't insist on them being elementals, but for purposes of discussion, corrupted *something*.) [/QUOTE]

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