I don't know how safe it is to say that it's good to be evil, but something that I've been thinking about a lot lately is the fact that we really do need to have both but would be considered good and what would be considered evil in order to survive in this world. The world is harsh, we've managed to make it into something reasonably livable, but there are good times and there are bad times and when there are bad times in particular sometimes you need to make hard decisions that are going to hurt someone else just to survive, and in those moments if you can't make hard decisions you might just take everyone with you.
It's like... We have to live with the fact that we have to be evil sometimes because that's the world we live in, but we have to have faith that being good is good so that we don't fully lose ourselves to evil. In the end, where we can be good we should be good.
It's like... We have to live with the fact that we have to be evil sometimes because that's the world we live in, but we have to have faith that being good is good so that we don't fully lose ourselves to evil. In the end, where we can be good we should be good.
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There is more than one culture on Earth. You can be many places around the world and while they may not completely agree with the specifics, there are some general agreements on what is good and what is evil. In most places, murdering an innocent person is considered wrong for example. Many if not most places have something approximating property rights, virtually everyone has some sort of familial ties and community ties.
In the graysonian ethic in one chapter I consider a creature that is nothing like humans, and it becomes immediately apparent that a creature that is nothing like a human would not share any of our values, whereas a creature that is like a human would likely share many of our values because the fundamental stuff that we are ends up shaping what we would consider to be values to uphold...
There are always going to be different values at all, survival of the self versus survival of the community or the family for example. Freedom from rules versus protection of rules. The rights and responsibilities and duties of one person and where they intersect with the rights and responsibilities and duties of another person...
In the graysonian ethic in one chapter I consider a creature that is nothing like humans, and it becomes immediately apparent that a creature that is nothing like a human would not share any of our values, whereas a creature that is like a human would likely share many of our values because the fundamental stuff that we are ends up shaping what we would consider to be values to uphold...
There are always going to be different values at all, survival of the self versus survival of the community or the family for example. Freedom from rules versus protection of rules. The rights and responsibilities and duties of one person and where they intersect with the rights and responsibilities and duties of another person...