The ideas of good and bad are meaningless out of context. Neither can exist without the other to compare it to. There can't be a good unless there is a bad to compare it to, and vice versa.
It is human nature to view oneself in the most positive way possible. This, however, involves finding things that are bad in relation to yourself. This is why things like hate, intolerance, and supremacy exist. People who feel things like hate and intolerance and rely on a sense of supremacy to feel better about themselves need to generate ideas of subordination of people who would naturally be considered equal. For Nazis and white supremacists, the bad that they use to compare to their own sense of good happens to be everything that doesn't have to do with Christianity, and being white-skinned.
No one likes being considered "wrong", so supremacists decide to dictate that only they are right and that everyone else is wrong. So long as there is an active practice of the opposing views of "good" and "bad", there will always be extremities attached to them. So long as human nature continues to breed ideas of hierarchy, difference in power, and difference itself, there will always be people like racists, sexists, antisemitists, and anti-homosexuals.
Such is life, and as much as it sucks, it's all we've got. I have no idea why I just wrote all this.
-nesqu!k
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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