good and evil. not necesarily in the external, social world of religious, political, and educational institutions, but also within your own being. i am attempting to answer what i feel them to be, why i feel they have so much power, and what i feel to be my philosophy in accordance with the two.
what are good and evil?
when i look at the two words, i am first drawn to say that they are concepts. images in the mind produced by a nerve stimulis that contain within themselves what is known as meaning. knowing this, that they are simply nothing more than ghosts of meaning, nothing that is actually with concrete physical substance, i proceed to define them. i define them in the deepest, furthest-thought-out sense that i possibly can. good being any stimulis that creates attraction, and evil being any stimulis that provokes repulsion. attraction and replusion. simple enough. i am attracted towards something that i feel to be good, and i am repelled from anything that i feel to be evil. note that i am defining the two as being analogous and no different from good and bad, or desireable and undesireable. in further pursuit of a full definition, i look to find a reason as to what causes one to desire something, to be attracted towards, and what causes him to not desire something, to be repelled from. an obvious reason would be the type, or will of the emotional energy within one's being. fair enough. emotion causes me to be attracted to something, in turn causing me to admit it's apparent quality of "goodness." and likewise, vice versa, and same-as-before with "badness" or "evil." the final step i will take this definition to, an area that i can see no further beyond in my current MISunderstanding of the universe, is that of the biological survival function of the human being. what i'm saying is that the will to survive, programmed into the organism by dna, is what lies at the bottom of the cause and effect line for why we as individuals refer to certain things as "good" and other things as "bad." so there. the will to survive affects the type of emotional energy we have towards the various stimuli in our reality, in turn affecting our attraction and repulsion mechanisms, finally leading to our subjective realizations of what we feel to be good and evil.
why do good and evil have so much power, especially in today's word?
since the dawn of civilization, man has been lead down the various roads of the earth following his desires and running away from that which he felt necesary to run away from. almost immediately, as civilization began, it was recognized among men that anything posing a threat to their survival had to be done away with, or dealt with in some fashion or another. these things came to be known as evil. the pursuit to rid their lives of these particular things became known as good. man was and is a herd animal, living together in packs and familial groups. this form of living apperently created a collective idea of what indeed was good and what was evil. these concepts of good and evil were spread out among all peoples of all nationalities. when a large group of men are united by a common goal and bond, especially one dealing with their survival, it seems as though a great deal of power is involved. an unstopable amount, when compared to one who might possibly be of different views about the whole matter.
today the two concepts exist as much as ever, but have been blown out of perportion to an almost unbelievable extent. tvs, magazines, books, radio shows, billboards, and various other forms in which the mass media pollutes the human skull are pumping their ideas of what good and evil are into nearly every modern citizen, in turn creating a strong belief within the individuals viewing and reading them of the same outrageous paradigm. drugs, sex, vulgar language, whoever is currently the "bad-guy" of your particular country, these things have been given the label of evil to the extent that the mass of men are willing to fight, with violence, something that i ironically feel should be given the title of evil, if anything, and even willing to put their own lives on the line, in some cases. though it is obvious among educated men and women that these concepts are subjective, many people fail to recognize this and worship the mass media's popular convictions as though they were their gods. this amount of power certainly is dangerous. this common belief about what is good and what is evil. enough power for you to be walking on a random street smoking a blunt, and suddenly being attacked by a citizen who believes that marijuana is "bad." though this may seem far fetched, i can easily see this occuring in my mind. regardless of all this though, it dosn't have to be upsetting. i can perfectly well enjoy a nice marijuana cigar in my own room whenever i want without worrying about being caught or attacked. i was merely pointing out an example of the power that these concepts have today in a modern, civilized, country.
what is my philosophy in accordance with the concepts of good and evil?
if i want something enough, i am willing to do anything to achieve my desire. i do not particularly care what means i use to get it. when something goes against my particular wishes, i have no problem referring to it as evil. when something flows in the current with my desire, it is easy for me to call it good. this is not to say that i am a killer or rapist or hate criminal, or some such other thing, i am just saying that if i truely did want to kill, commit rape, or commit a hate crime, i would not call it evil myself, but refer to the things that standed in my way as evil. i am the protagonist, and the limits and bounderies in my way are the antagonist. bottom line, the terms are subjective to me. i choose what is and what is not good and evil.
any comments, thoughts, objections?
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