Novel & Cerita Evil For Good And Good For Evil

One of the big things I wanted to highlight all throughout the novel was this idea of Good vs Evil. In my opinion, this is a narrative tool that waters down human experiences and does us all a disservice. What I mean is that boiling things down to just Good or just Evil isn’t an objectively good way to look at reality. Or at stories in general. Our lives are far more complex and nuanced than just those two aspects, and to paint people or characters as either/or is both lazy and misleading.

Thea closed her eyes. “Dare I ask what your purpose is?” “My purpose is to create life in more forms than you, even as gods, can fathom,” Life said. “And mine is to refine it,” Death added. “That’s why you helped us defeat Lilith?” “Your terms good and evil are simplistic, naïve, and reductive, but with your current ability of understanding, I will use them. Evil wants to stifle and destroy life. Good wants to keep it going. We’ll keep the good influences around over the evil for now. Sometimes destructive forces are useful. You already understand that, though.”

*** The Male Demon thundered: The invention of the left-hand-path as the direction where “evil” treads is based purely on the idea that polar opposites in moral deliberations exist as a force outside of the human mind. Whereas in reality, the “good” and the “evil” are cultural constructs designed to corral the local populace into accepted mental boxes, so the ruling elite may then dispose of them as per their fiat. Such ideas exist solely to fellate the individual’s ego. When one applies the adjective “good” to oneself, then those who have a viewpoint not in alignment, must out of necessity, be “evil.” Yet if each person views themselves as the “good” or the “hero”, then what actually consti

"Look, Buttercup, forget what you know of religion, most of it is superstition, anyway. Think of life in terms of good and evil, not actions, but motives. A man kills another man to steal his money. That's evil. Now, say a man shoots and kills someone to protect his family. That's not evil, even though the act is the same. Motive makes an act evil or good. That's the basic difference between the Way and the Void. You did something that changed your motives, and Vargas sent the gargoyles after you." The girl stared at the bed with her chocolate eyes. She still had that deer-in-the-headlights look about her. Rhychard couldn't blame her. Gargoyles attacked her, a sword fight saved her, and a co

If I killed to protect myself, would that make me evil? "Ugh, okay. Where are you going with this?" I wasn't sure I wanted to know. He chuckled and climbed off the bed, adjusting his clothes. When he finished, he lifted me onto my feet. "In Buddhism," he began, "good and evil don't exist, per se. Instead, there is kusala and akusala. Kusala is considered to be intelligence, contentment, beneficial, and a remover of affliction. Akusala is, quite simply, the opposite, or ignorance, causer of affliction, and so on. Which boils down to this: what is evil to one person may be good to another. Life and everything in it is about your perception."

He verified. “I don't know. That stuff ain't scientifically proven." “I get but science can't explain everything. There are some things science is unable to answer." “Things like what?" “Why are they both Evil and Good?" he said and I thought for a while. “And does magic explain this?" “Yes, it actually does." He said and my curiosity began surfacing. “I will like to hear about it then." “Evil and Good are not just some words used to qualify or attribute to a person based on the things they do. Evil and Good are actually two people on their own," he explained and my head spinned a little bit.

Some memories might still make you laugh when you look back at those days, maybe even a few happy tears dampen your cheeks when thinking of them. But, that same carelessness and the dream of freedom and life is what gets us killed. Life has been and will always be divided into evil and good. That is one thing we will never change. Everyone is born either evil or good. Already as a baby, your brain is either capable of certain things or not. Your experiences might delay the inevitable. Your life and memories might have that scale tipping, trying to balance itself. But eventually, where there is light, goodness will rise, and where there is dark, evil will rise, and the scale will come to stan

“So, you’re saying there’s never been true darkness and light in the world, no such thing as righteous and evil?” “There is righteous and evil, but darkness and light are relative.” The white-robed elder chuckled. “As for the division between righteous and evil, it’s nothing more than the difference between the Great Path and the Demonic Path.” “The Great Path and the Demonic Path.” James rolled his eyes. “So, you still look down on living beings with evil tendencies?” “You’ve got it wrong,” said the black-robed elder slowly. “The so-called Demonic Path seeks destruction, while the Great Path seeks creation. It’s not determined by birth, main self, or where one comes from but rather by one’s

I was ready for the knowledge, no matter how shocking or terrifying it might be. "The chakras could be of any type," the old man continued. "There are good chakras and other ones contain perks of evil in it." I couldn't help but interrupt him, my curiosity piqued. "What do you mean by good and evil chakras?" The old man looked at me with piercing eyes, as if trying to assess whether I was ready to hear the truth. "Good chakras are those that are aligned with the universal energy and bring balance and harmony to your life," he explained. "Evil chakras, on the other hand, are the ones that are misaligned and bring chaos and negativity."

Impossible to answer simply. "I do not think good and evil work the way you think they work," I said slowly. "I do not think people are fundamentally one or the other. I think people are—complicated. Full of contradictions. Capable of terrible things and beautiful things. Sometimes simultaneously. Sometimes the same action is both." "That does not answer my question."