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Lynn Ruth,
You raise an interesting point. Maybe our world would not be interesting anymore if there were only good?
With all the cloning that's going on, man may well have a shot at immortality but would immortality be fun? I think Jonathan Swift wrote something marvellous about that in the Tale of a Tub-- if we were to grow old forever while the world renews itself and we don't necessarily grow with it, would that be joyous? Immortality, having to become old with no relief of dying, might be a tremendous chore and who wants to be in diapers for centuries to come?
Death would creep me out when I was 9, but at 39 I have mellowed and death seems less threatening. Plus we need death maybe, the opposite of life, to remind ourselves we have to love life because we have so little of it?!
posted by Inez Hollander @ 6:58 PM
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it seems rather a functionalist POV to think that the best possible world would have optimum contrasts of good and evil in it, ''to make it more interesting''. even slightly Panglossian (cf. Voltaire). instead, i think it may be that ''evil'' must be accepted as inevitable, for if there was no category of ''evil'' its polar opposite, ''good'' would also cease to exist and have meaning, no? what preoccupies me is the thought that there IS no evil, no good, and yes, life is meaningless. why should that matter if it is the case? i don't know but it does seem to to me. furthermore, if, as lynn ruth said, we all as human beings may be guilty of self-justifying our actions regardless of the pain they may cause to others, then we are all equally ''evil'', and thus this category is meaningless because there can be nothing against which to contrast it (i.e. no ''good'')- which is depressing.
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