Why goodness and badness always lives in one thing or one person?

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One thing can be good or bad simultaneously.
One person can be good or bad simultaneously.

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[+3] - north - 01/17/2011[quote="lovespring"] why not just be goodness or badness, why come together? [/quote] because that is the way of the Universe , balance
[+3] - djjd62 - 01/17/2011[i]there once was girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead and when she was good she was very, very good but when she was bad she was better[/i]

Yeah . . . so?

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@lovespring,

Do you even know what good and bad are?

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@Setanta,

why not just be goodness or badness, why come together?

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@lovespring,

lovespring wrote:

why not just be goodness or badness, why come together?

because that is the way of the Universe , balance

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@lovespring,

I really rather doubt that people make conscious choices about these matters. Some days, people are compasionate and caring. Other days, they've got a headache, or a disappointment, and don't care how you feel. Life is like that--people respond to things about which they don't give any thought.

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there once was girl
who had a little curl
right in the middle of her forehead
and when she was good
she was very, very good
but when she was bad
she was better

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

I really rather doubt that people make conscious choices about these matters.

oh they do

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@north,

You're an idiot. Do me the favor of not resonding to my posts.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

You're an idiot. Do me the favor of not resonding to my posts.

won't happen

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Their is no good or evil, only a difference in opinion.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

I really rather doubt that people make conscious choices about these matters. Some days, people are compasionate and caring. Other days, they've got a headache, or a disappointment, and don't care how you feel. Life is like that--people respond to things about which they don't give any thought.

That's one part of it, yes, but then there is the difference between a good watch dog and a vicious beast.

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@Setanta,

...there there...what a temper ! Mr. Green

May I suggest you a Turkish massage...you need to relax seriously , or one of this days you will end up speaking with goblins and hobbits also... Cool

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@wayne,

The question would be whether or not it were a difference of intent.

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@Setanta,

...little boxes of wisdom right there...you shine like a beam of light !

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@Setanta,

Probably so. People don't often intend to be bad, they intend to survive and prosper. Good or bad lies in which side of the fence you're on.

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@wayne,

Those are certainly subjective terms. It is to me foolish to suggest that people are consistently motivated by conscious choice.

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@Setanta,

The basis for motivation is most likely instinctive. We do have a tendency toward carrying those instincts to the extreme.
Doesn't it seem as though restraint requires concious choice?

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@wayne,

Yeah, perhaps it does. But the geneticists are now telling us that community and compassion are evolutionary products--so, who knows?

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@Setanta,

Yeah, I can see how that can be said too.
Question, is there any difference between the positive and negative poles of a magnet other than alignment?

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