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Originally Posted by nothingx
This is all fine and well... but how do we really know that good is the "real" force? How can we be sure that evil isn't the only real thing, and what we think of as good is just our own struggle against it? Maybe animals killing each other - doing whatever they have to survive - things we generally think of as evil and try to avoid... maybe that's the only thing that's real. "Evil", or what we call evil, is just the natural state of things, and we're just fighting against it.
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"Good" and "evil" are both forces. I don't believe that either could simply be the "lack of" the other. I believe that good and evil coexist in pretty much everyone, with rare exception. There are those who are so pure in heart, that evil is only (if at all) superficially present. Not even enough to be noticed. Also, there are some who have absolutely no good in them. On the whole, however, most people live with a mixture of good and evil, and the mixture strengthens towards one side or the other from time to time. For most people, the mixture is fairly constant, and might only waver if someone makes them angry, etc. Also, there's "conflict"...
Let's take for example that both good and evil exist in people, in units up to 100. Most people might have 10 - 20 evil, and 70 - 90 good (we're not adding to 100, so don't start doing that, this is not a balance thing). For those who feel the conflicts of their good and bad sides, it might be more like 40 - 50 evil, and 70 - 90 good. There's the same amount of good, but there's more evil to temper it, and to cause conflict.
I would say I'm likely a 90 or 95 good, 80 evil. There is a lot of conflict, but good always wins because there's more of it. The evil is a constant battle though, so it's far from a "background" feeling.