Same answer, just regurgitated differently

paradox: evil IS good

as i was reading through all of the blog posts of my classmates i cant help but notice they are almost the exact stance. everyone believes there is no truly bad or truly good, we are a mixture of both. and in my opinion a healthy mixture. by doing something out-of-line every once in a while it allows us to appreciate the good things that we do in our life. it is human nature to be both evil and good, sometimes at the same time. good and evil also depends on what side of the battle you are looking at. in wars who is really the bad guy? is it people we are fighting against? to us it is, but im sure that to the people on the other side of the conflict they feel just as justified in their feeling that the united states is evil. it all depends on what side you are looking at the conflict from.

the basic idea of good versus evil has been around as long as man has. since the torah(first testament for you christians out there) there has been good and evil. because it is part of all human beings it has shown up everywhere in our culture. in our nooks, movies, news, internet sights, etc... there is not a definite good versus evil. everyone in their life has been evil at some point, but they have also been good too. the evil allows us to appreciate the good. therefore without evil there is no good at all.