This is an argument to answer the question of whether platonic evil can exist without platonic good. What you're arguing is correct, but that is not an answer to the question I'm asking.
I am asking about the forces of evil and forces of good.
We can argue there is evidence to suggest a great evil power. What I am asking is whether there is evidence of a great good power OR if a great good power must exist because a great evil one seems to. We are talking about entities, not concepts.
That evil exists (as a concept) and good is definitionally that which is antithetical to evil is irrelevant.
Good or evil is what you choose to do, first and foremost
Start here before looking elsewhere
The main difference between good and evil ultimately, is that you can choose to stop doing good anytime you want
If there was no force pushing the other way, the force in question would push all the way to the ultimate end of the spectrum.
If the force for good was taken away, the force for evil would immediately push the universe into an absolute entropic state.
Everything is cyclical, like a pendulum. This law is universal. The 2 forces push back and forth against each other.
The further we go into entropy, the more powerful the force for good becomes, but it's effects won't become very apparent until we have some momentum in the other direction.
How do you deduce this?
Who's to say the force in question (the evil one) desires a completely entropic state. Maybe it simply desires the suffering of the weak at the hands of the strong.
This this force a person/individual? It would have to be to have such specific desires.
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