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Originally Posted by analog
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.
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I totally understand what you're saying, and I think its a pretty interesting model for good and evil in people. In particular because I'm into game programming and simulated behavior, and your theory is based on numbers which translates into code easily. What I was looking for is an argument for your theory, which you gave: "it's just how I feel"... and that's fine with me.
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Originally Posted by asaris
a dull knife is a good knife, which is counter-intuitive to say the least
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Hilarious!
I didn't even think of it that way. I believe though, that the "good" you speak of there is a different kind of "good" than I was refering to. Good in that sense means well honed, while good in my sense means not evil. You certainly wouldn't call a dull knife a good knife, but you wouldn't call it an evil knife either, would you?
Your argument for inanimate objects is a good one, but it assumes that humans are not evil to start with. If an evil man builds a bomb to kill millions of innocent people, would the bomb still be a good thing? It served its purpose well, right?