Musing

[pyrephox]

LJ is, beyond any doubt, the wrong place to try to figure out the nature of mankind. The only answer it returns is: Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. That, and catgirl porn. BUT!

We are brave and tenacious explorers, and thus are not stopped by such petty concepts as 'sanity'. So, we look into the darkest heart of the virtual community (no, not the one where the fans write stories about Ian McKellan having his wicked way with a drugged Orlando Bloom while shouting, "Who's the king now, Viggo?!", but nice try) and ask: What is good and evil?

All kidding aside, I'm curious. If you're interested, leave a comment giving /your/ definition of 'good' and 'evil'.

Comments

[wavemaker.livejournal.com]

They're.. semantic categories, as I see it. Labels for whatever set of values a person has, which are both individually and socially constructed. Values come into being as an approximation of the best fit between a situation and one's experience of the situation; between the relatively 'objective' and the relatively 'subjective'. Meaning and value arise through this fundamental interaction, and 'good' and 'evil' are simply the labels that people place upon their particular interpretations of value and disvalue.

Am I gobbledygooking? Er, yeah. Staying up all night and into the day again.. it's good for me!

Relatively speaking, of course.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but pyrephox is asking for your personal interpretation of good and evil. So while it's interesting to know that you think that good and evil are generally labels for value sets, it doesn't address the core question. What values do you, personally, label as "good", and which ones do you label as "evil"?