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but good and evil are relational terms. one implies the other. i dont think the question is whether at any given point you can imagine someone acting entirely "for the good" but more whether one can have the good without its opposite.
the story of the fall would have you think no:
but the complication is that the story is more about free will, which cannot be exercized without the possibility existing of the rules being broken--without that, there is no choice, and without choice no free will (which exists in practice, not in principle). so without an opposition good/evil there can be no free will.
without evil, good cannot be defined, and vice versa.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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