so basiclly we exist and that is it? if we do good its because we call it good and if we do bad its because we call it bad? We are born and have the free will to do as we please and the good natured or thoughtful guy is only such because he conforms to humanity's pre convieved ideas of goodness? Well the way i see it is that even if what iv said is the fact there are still things we know of that are base 'good' or 'bad' even if we're conditioned into believing it. What i mean is although we give it meaning and we decide as a whole good and bad, thngs like stealing would be bad (imo) even if society as a whole called it good. I can understand totally that without us there would be no good or bad, but i cant bleieve that to be true. even if there is no god we as people 'feel' revulsion when we see acts that we have never encountered before that are bad. how can u explain that? if i was brought up in a convant and the first day i left i saw someone getting brutaly beating would i not think that evil even if all i knew was eating sleeping and praying? or maybe thats not a good analogy, what i mean is that to me at least there are some things which seem to go deeper than simply being told or deciding its good or bad, we 'feel' within oursleves that its bad even if we do not understand or know that it is. i might chave completly misunderstood existentialism, and i dont believe in predestiny or anything like that, but i do believe that we can tell base evil and good, not just be conditioned to think it so.
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