Good And Evil

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Good and evil, the real question of how to define their true nature. Through out time many philosophers have often pondered this but can someone really give the clear and precise one. At first glance one would seem to have a wide range of possibilities. One definition is that they are qualities attributed to objects, actions, and ideas. Generally, what is good is thought to be beneficial and what is evil is thought to be harmful. Many religions through out the world and the entire human race are based on the aspects of good and evil and their endless struggle for dominance. However despite this endless struggle many have claimed that good always wins, but can that truly exist. What is good with out evil, many have become so used to a society where both are so internally intertwined that a society where only one exists has only been created with imagination.

This aspect of a good society or a bad society is so far fetched that to humanity the only way of reaching such a place is through the after life or the end of the world as humanity knows it. Thus good and evil are eternal counterparts and a society in which one solely exists is very difficult to find on this earth, if this is true then can the existence of God truly be conformed. So can good really exist with out evil and vise versa.

The existence of evil in the world is necessary for there to be good in the world. For example say the whole world was white then one would not be able to identify the shade of white unless another shade, for example black, existed. Thus if the whole world was white then one would not realize it or acknowledge it unless...