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Good is a broad concept but it typically deals with an association with life, charity, continuity, happiness, love and justice.
Evil is typically associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological needs and dignity, destructiveness, and acts of unnecessary and/or indiscriminate violence.
The nature of being good has been given many treatments; one is that the good is based on the natural love, bonding, and affection that begins at the earliest stages of personal development; another is that goodness is a product of knowing truth. Differing views also exist as to why evil might arise. Many religious and philosophical traditions claim that evil behavior is an aberration that results from the imperfect human condition. Sometimes, evil is attributed to the existence of free will and human agency. Some argue that evil itself is ultimately based in an ignorance of truth A variety of Enlightenment thinkers have alleged the opposite, by suggesting that evil is learned as a consequence of tyrannical social structures.
While certainly not as widely seen as the direct good vs. evil conflict, the concept of "individual vs. self" is often much more compelling to a reader/watcher, especially if it is the protagonist. In both literature and film, it requires well-written character development in order to truly succeed.
Perspective is the most outgoing prospect of the plight between good and evil. The villain normally sees himself as doing the just thing, or he can also see himself as doing something that, in the end, will only satisfy himself. While one person sees himself doing right another will most assuredly say that whomever is doing wrong, and human nature will usually oppose it. Good is a thing which will not hurt anyone but evil does it.
Types of Evil: Moral Evil and Natural Evil
Though it is very real, evil does not have an existence of its own.
The idea here is not that evil is an illusion. However, rather than an entity that exists on its own, evil is the absence of something rather than a ‘thing’ itself.
As an example…Does cold exist? Cold is a word created to describe a situation involving the absence of heat. It does not have an existence in itself, only in relation to a lack of heat energy. Similarly, darkness is an absence of light, but does not exist as a created substance. Light consists of a complex mix of particles and waves, but darkness has no substance and can only occur in relation to light…it is the absence of light.
Moral and Natural Evil
There are two types of evil: moral evil and natural evil.
Moral evil is evil committed by free moral agents and includes crime, cruelty, class struggles, discrimination, slavery, genocide, and other injustices.
Natural evil involves things that ‘just happen’. Moral agents are not responsible for natural evil such as tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and other natural destructive events. Random events like a moose running onto the road in front of your car or contracting a disease would also fall into this category.
The conflict between good and evil is one of the precepts of the Zoroastrian faith in Persia, first enshrined by Zarathustra, the Zoroastrian prophet, over 3000 years ago. It is also one of the most common conventional themes in literature, and is sometimes considered to be a universal part of the human condition. There are several variations on this conflict, one being the battle between individuals or ideologies, with one side Good, the other Evil. Another variation is the inner struggle in characters (and by extension, humans in reality) between good and evil.
Identify the Good and Evil Counterparts in a Well-Constructed Answer
These basic ideas of a dichotomy has developed so that today:
Good is a broad concept but it typically deals with an association with life, charity, continuity, happiness, love and justice.
Evil is typically associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological needs and dignity, destructiveness, and acts of unnecessary and/or indiscriminate violence.[8]
the dilemma of the human condition and humans' and their capacity to perform both good and evil activities.[9]
The nature of being good has been given many treatments; one is that the good is based on the natural love, bonding, and affection that begins at the earliest stages of personal development; another is that goodness is a product of knowing truth. Differing views also exist as to why evil might arise. Many religious and philosophical traditions claim that evil behavior is an aberration that results from the imperfect human condition (e.g. "The Fall of Man"). Sometimes, evil is attributed to the existence of free will and human agency. Some argue that evil itself is ultimately based in an ignorance of truth (i.e., human value, sanctity, divinity). A variety of Enlightenment thinkers have alleged the opposite, by suggesting that evil is learned as a consequence of tyrannical social structures.