why is good preferred over bad…
non-metaphysical reasons for standing for love, good,
and all those other values of our higher angels instead of
bad, hate, anger, greed the lower instincts of the human creature…
look at our solar system…we have the planets circling around the sun
in picture perfect harmony…the solar system is stable, uncluttered, without
chaos and instability… it has lasted for billions of years in stability…
the reason is those things that create instability and chaos don’t exist
in the solar system… we don’t have roving planets causing chaos or
instability in the solar system… we don’t have any large nearby stars causing
us any instability and as long as nothing changes, we shall continue to have harmony
and stability and that is a very, very good thing as it allows us humans on our third
planet to continue our existence… chaos and instability in anything, threatens
that thing to remain stable and continued existence…to exist, to have anything
exist, it must have stability…the more stable objects have less chaos and less instability
and less random actions around it…think of bridges… the more they are able to
withstand chaos, randomness, instability, they better able they are to stand…
the chaotic events like earthquakes, storms, temperature changes, these random events
threaten the stability of bridges and the bridge must be built in such a way to resist
those random and instable events…we want our bridges to be stable and to continue
existence and that means being able to withstand chaos and instability and randomness…
now a storms or another random chaotic events is not good or evil or any other
such human designation… those events are just events without any human
qualities to them…
now think of human relationships like marriage… I have been married for
21 years now…how did our relationship last? how did our relationship
survive? we stay away from chaotic events that threaten the stability
of our relationships… I have never cheated… that type of random, chaotic
event threaten the stability of a relationship…I have worked during our
entire relationship… that helps the stability of our relationship…
any random, chaotic event threatens the stability of a relationship…
birth, death, losing a job, cheating on a spouse… if you want a relationship
to last, one needs stability within and around the relationship…
so what builds a relationship and allows it stability? love, hope, honesty,
those higher angels of our nature allows a relationship stability…
and what destroys a relationship by allowing instability? those
lower angels of our human nature, hate, anger, greed…
these emotions create instability and chaos and randomness
into a relationship…
the positive attributes like good, love, integrity, hope help maintains
stability within any relationship we have…
hate, anger greed are unstable attributes that bring chaos and
randomness into any relationship…
it is about the stability of a thing that allows it to exists that is important…
and to have stability, one must avoid chaos and randomness and hate,
as all of those thing contribute to instability which can lead to
the loss of stability which threatens to destroy any object…
to exists, for anything to exists, it must have stability and anything that
threatens that stability must be avoided… thus we have
reasons for behavior that might be listed as good vs any behavior
that might be listed as evil… for “good” behavior helps bring about
stability and “evil” behavior brings about instability…we can
work for such things as love and hope and any number of the higher
nature of our angels behavior because they promotes stability
and the lower nature of our angels promotes instability and thus
threatens our existence… it is about stability that we must fight for
and the higher angel of our nature helps bring about that stability…
this is a non-metaphysical reason to promote “good” actions and avoid
“bad” or “evil” actions… good actions promote stability which allows
something to exist longer and “bad” actions allow instability which
can bring about the end of something…
Kropotkin