"Watchman" <stryder@SPAMPHOBICwhyalla.net.au> wrote:
> "Vaughn L.Porter" wrote:
> >                          Light cannot exist without Dark.
>
> Yes it can. You just wouldn't notice it.

Imagine the realm as a great big hollow sphere! You are inside the sphere
for your viewing pleasure you have been provided sun glasses because
inside there is a great big very bright source of incredible light. There
is no room for shadow in this realm because even though you stand between
the light and the wall of the sphere the reflection and diffusion of light
allows for enough illumination directly behind you. That is, there are no
shadows thus there is no darkness! Light exists without dark.

Just because I don't notice something does not mean it has not been
acounted for. I am not using my senses in this example or this ideaology,
I am using the facts as they are.

Now if you want to move this example on and compare it to good and evil
then fine lets do that.

In this world we have so many people, say 6 billion. Each person has the
right to choose how they act and what their intentions are going to be. We
have the right to choose. This means that we can choose to be good and we
can choose to be evil. Now the law of averages would suggest that 3
billion people would choose good and 3 billion people would choose evil.
Fortunately this doesn't take into account the mob mentality. This
suggests that what one person does another is likey to do also. Following
this example we can estimate that should the first person choose good then
say 5 billion choose good and 1 billion choose evil.

None of those examples uses a formula that gives exact figures or even
certain figures. If one person is allowed to choose good that it follows
that all people are allowed to choose good. If all people choose good and
all people are good to each other then where is evil? It's possible to be
without evil, it's ideal. It's not however, real. Evil does exist but only
because people choose to let it exist. People decide that they are going
to do evil things, it's not forced on them and it certainly does not come
from anything else.

Of course you can reverse this and work it for evil the same way. If
that's what you want to do though, then you are argueing for world of
complete and utter darkness. If you ever find your way out, let me know!
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