RE: RE: Good and Evil?
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RE: Good and Evil?

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Indeed, really good questions.

That "evil" is not real probably also implies that "good" is not real. The further one distances events from oneself in time and space, the less one thinks of them as evil or good, but as "happening as they happened". For example, that the stars collide in the cosmos, supernovas are created by powerful forces. Man does not associate this with anything bad or good if he refrains from imagining that he himself will one day be overcome or destroyed by such cosmic forces. In the same way, one cannot impute any good or evil intentions to the micro-cosms, the smallest particles in every body, whether organic or inorganic. Only man knows how to do such things, for example, by calling viruses "enemies" and creating a dilemma in which it is impossible to distinguish between humans and viral enemies. He dumps the baby out with the bathwater. Is that already "evil"? I would say no, it is merely a worldview based on the good-evil theme, born out of the malaise of awareness of oneself.

Observation rather than judgement is an ideal, you can have it.

However, it should be really clear that one can never absolutely live up to this ideal, but if this ideal did not exist, then the level would go even further in the direction of "judgement of goodness or evil", because the alternative, the deviation from these two terms, would be missing.

But you are right insofar as alternatives of something can only be found on the basis of the already existing terms. Where there is no original, nothing deviating from the original can be considered.

The point is that one can allow oneself to judge, but once one has made a judgement, one can also let go of it, instead of clinging to the hatred or accusation that commonly accompanies the judgement of others.

This "not letting go" is a problem, I think. In every encounter, two people recreate themselves every time, they influence each other and behave according to the views thrown at them, there is almost nothing you can do about it.

Whether an environment therefore develops into a primarily conflictual one is up to all the people involved in that environment, who are all at the same time the creators of their physical as well as mental environments. Nothing happens without this permanent creation of reality, in my eyes.

I would say that the moment Homo Sapiens came to consciousness of himself, and thereby became human, he has been a reality creator ever since, an ongoing process. A burden as well as an inspiration.

One can say that it would be better if there were no conflicts, but one can also say that this statement is wrong, because without conflicts humans would not be humans, but animals. Conflict can result in extremely intelligent decisions, as can the exact opposite (and everything in between). A certain acceptance that death, disease and struggle exist is, in my view, part of not going crazy.