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Originally Posted by nothingx
How do you know this? Is it faith, or do you have a logical reason to believe so? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be an ass or anything... I, personally, do not know if one, both, or either actually exist. I'm always looking for reasons to feel one way or the other.
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You quoted the first two lines of my post... pretty much everything that followed (the rest of my post) was my explanation of that thought.
It's not a faith thing, it's just how I feel. I feel it's logical that they both exist in all of us for the reasons I outlined- people can experience inner struggle with their own forces of good and evil... people can be mostly good, or mostly evil, or really just so neutral that there's virtually none of either.
For another example:
Take me again. Assume i'm "80" evil and "90" good (everything out of a possible "100", to put perspective on "amounts" of good and evil).
Let's also make up a person names Zippy. Zippy is 5 evil and 15 good.
By both accounts, the difference in good and evil is only "10".
However, there's pretty much no real good or evil in Zippy, so Zippy is really just kinda passive with regard to most everything. Zippy doesn't care to help, but doesn't care to hurt, either. Zippy just doesn't feel those impulses.
Also, my difference of "10" is between two very high numbers- "80" evil and "90" good. I have a lot of good in me, so I do a lot of good. I also have a lot of evil in me which sometimes tempers my goodness, but never overtakes it. Because both levels are so high, however, they often clash because they're both very strong forces looking to occupy the same space or control the same person.
The crux of my argument is that, in every person, good and evil are separately-accounted-for portions of the personality, not impulses that counteract each other equally (as in, not "40" evil and "60" good, or "10" evil and "90" good- it's not a matter of them balancing proportionally towards a total- they each exist independently, and fight each other as other impulses do). As with any component of a person's personality, soul, whatever, some impulses are very strong, and some are not as strong... or even weak, or non-existent. I believe this because it is the result of my logical answer from many periods of thought on the subject, and a lot of time spent observing human behavior (I pretty much do that nonstop).