Evil. The sense of immorality, and malevolence. The idea of good and evil has been explored and pondered through out history. Science and religion have both tried to explain it. Some conquer it. Others succumb to it. I'd like to be panglossian toward this, but in a world so consumed by war, greed, and similar afflictions, it would be a herculine task. We all have a sense of evil within us. If we didn't, we'd never look for vengeance after that guy carl today went and told that chick, (ugh, what was her name… Jane? sure…) that story about when you went camping and had horrible diarrhea. Dammit Carl, why'd you have to ruin this for me?
Perhaps good and evil's relationship is like cold and heat. There is no such thing as " the cold", just a lack of heat energy. With our good old ring and yang, maybe there's no such thing as good, just a lack of evil. It feels like there's no evil sometimes, but it's there. The amount of evil energy ( yeah Sam, go ahead and create a unit so you can keep track of the amount of evil in a given area, if it's even possible. Why'll you're at, why don't you build a device that can keep track of evil levels!) The idea that good is not real, and that our sense of greatness or nobility is just a low level of Lex Lutherness is depressing, but hey, maybe it's the other way around. Perhaps evil is just a lack of good, and doesn't really exist.
Human duality and the eternal struggle between good and bad are popular topics for literature and film. Jekyll and Hyde is a perfect example. Henry Jeklly, a well respected english doctor, attempts to remove the evil from his soul with an interesting concoction. The result is the evil murderer, Mr Hyde. Even if we attempt to estrange ourselves from past crimes or wrongdoings, our recidivism is most likely bound to drag us back to our old ways.
No matter how you look at it, the science of evil is fascinating. I've tried to explain it here, and write down my idea's on it, but as a human, I don't think I'll ever come to understand it.
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