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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Can't. You will never get everyone to agree on what is good or Evil. Even if you did, there would be so many stipulations and qualifiers it would look like the US penal code.
That said, you might get everyone to agree that they have an opinion on what's good and evil. Therefore good and evil exist but can't be defined.
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There's something very
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance about this line of reasoning -- the whole "You can't define 'quality', but you know what it is and when you see it" paradigm.
The CONCEPTS of good and evil exist, certainly. We're discussing them now. But if there is no general agreement on the _definition_ of those concepts, on what the concepts mean, then are the concepts useful in and of themselves? If the definitions are inherently unquantifiable, then what does the concept really stand for?
Whatever the person (or persons, or community, or authority) using the concept wants it to stand for, that's what.