The majority of people view the concept of good and bad as two opposites of the same linear spectrum. Bad is something to avoid and good is something to strive towards, to achieve, “the goal”.
This results in philosophies and ethics like altruism, noblesse oblige, helping, which mirrored in theology gets you into better places in the afterlife such as heaven, or have less karma, or/and/etc.
However, life and dare i say reality itself, is not structured in this way.
The most selfless, well meaning, loving, helping hand that only gives and hands out, will still take away.
THAT is the paradox of “good” in this reality.
Every act of good, every act of helping is an opportunity denied, a chance at improvement ruined, a potential for learning removed.
What goes unsaid, what is hardly ever explored is that both sides of the spectrum are poison.
Good and bad are equally destructive forces, and life can always only thrive in the middle between two opposing forces, in the eye of the storm.
Negative forces, violence, entropy, selfishness, vice and dissonance will shred and tear apart.
Positive forces, excess, bliss, perfection, peace and contentment will render inert, discharge, and induce avolition
The true nature of reality, it’s nature of ethics and morals is that of a singularity.
It folds back onto itself.
You build the greatest system of good and excellence, and it’s inevitable result will be decadence, degeneration, spoiling, putrefaction and collapse.
Life, much like a simple engine requires both positive and negative states in order to produce movement. A piston will not do a single thing if there is only positive or negative pressure in the system. It will be at a standstill at it’s lowest point of resistance.
