A Thought-Experiment: The 'Good'

Our Existence entails what we perceive of as 'Good' and 'Evil'.



To be wholly 'Good', arguably the Best possible situation would be for us to not exist at all.

For if we did not exist, it is arguable that neither would our 'Evil' or 'Wrong-ness' or 'Bad-ness'.

To achieve what could be conceived of as the most Desirable situation according to the 'Good', we should arrive at Desiring the Un-Desirable -- rather, the Impossibility of Desire.

To Not-Be, in some sense, is 'Better' than Being, for only through our Being does 'Evil' have the possibility to arise.

If we are actually 'Good' - or at least have the possibility of trying to do or achieve the 'Good' - then the most Desirable option would be to achieve 'Non-Being'.

It is absolutely contrary to all that we feel and experience in 'reality', yet for that reason, to me, it is the most Tragic and the most Beautiful.

The next assumption, after one adopts this viewpoint, would be that suicide seems to become more Desirable.

However, being possibly 'Good' Beings or possibly trying to achieve the 'Good', we would not find suicide viable as it still perpetuates the 'Evil' while still existing (unless everyone unanimously agreed to commit suicide simultaneously so that no person would be left to experience the 'Evil' of the act).

Therefore, we come to question the most (seemingly)basic Desire of all: Reproduction.

It would be the next logical step in this process to understand that we should fight all the impulses to reproduce and not perpetuate the 'Evil'.

The influence of 'Evil' is so strong that it arguably has its roots in our 'sexuality' -- hence the millennial-old struggle with Eros and Desire. Morals.

This is potentially the most painful view-point of understanding 'reality's' function, however, also the most Binding.

It is simply too much for us at this point in Time to Understand, but it needs to be talked about.

In some sense I believe that everyone, however vague, already has some hint of this Understanding, hence why we are such delicate and fragile Beings -:- We are all raw with the Understanding of our own malfeasance...we are the terrible martyrs of ourselves who have so little control that we cannot stop our carnal impulses to perpetuate the struggle.

We cannot inoculate ourselves with the Understanding that we are all running about deceiving ourselves, and that the 'Ultimate Good' would be for there to be no 'Good' at all.

So now we must ask ourselves, "How do we Act now?", knowing what we know.

The goal of Thinking is perhaps to direct us 'home', towards 'Non-Being': An Ethics towards 'Non-Being'.