Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Noble ? Evil?

some characteristics, personalities will be defined as noble. like honest, innocent, etc.

why we think these are noble? (1) some said, it is because these are not easy/able to do but people still can do it. this definition/comment, meaning that the other opposite-- evil, is that, these are easy/able to do, and people do it. obviously, it is not the case. (not easy to do but still can do it, only mean that people with ability)

(2) some said, these characteristics can increase social benefit/happiness. just like a distribution, noble and evil is just 2 opposite edges. that's sound reasonable, but, what is "social benefit/happiness"? how to measure? we never live in a honest society. so, we never know "honest" does good for society. moreover, will something call "overshoot" happen -- bad effect may happen when too much honest in the society?

(3) some said, these behaviors are simply make one-self feel good and happy. well, should we define some mad people, who has just little different for happy, are not people at all??

i think, noble and evil, are very much the same. which is abnormal indeed. beyond abnormal, they are the same. which will not cause any good or bad. think about how we know noble action, how this concept was built in our mind. most of it is come from our parent. think about before any religions, do we know any moral? may be we can only think about what is useful, what is effective. and some day, some thinker, declare that some behaviors are good (in their mind). and some emperors, think that it can be used to control people. so, people will passing those idea generation by generation, and this also spread out wider and wider.

thus, forget about the noble and evil, it is just a joke in human society, by emperors to his stupid people. if one can see through the future, and look back on today. noble and evil, is just a useful idea, to make people busy on, by thinking they are never good enough.

this is the new definition for noble and evil:
work effective = noble
ineffective = evil

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