Duality

Looks like insomnia strikes again. I'm on the cusp of falling into the sweet arms of sleep but the responsibilities I promised myself and my sponsor force me to shun her. Anyways, I was thinking. Have you wondered about how everything has two if not more sides to it? Take a cigaret for example. We all know it's bad side, it's a catalyst for heart disease, lung cancer among numerous other afflictions. But cigarets can be good as well, they aid in curing constipation. It's the nicotine I believe that allows all those bombs you held back to be dropped with glorious abandon. In that small example itself one can see that everything, I repeat everything, has two sides (or maybe more).

For every wrong, it can be justified into a right. Every right, may lead to a greater wrong. To me, this is one of those things, the dualism of life, that makes life worth living. As so eloquently said in Star Wars "What is good, if not the teacher of bad?". Evil is nothing without good as a comparison. Good is nothing without evil as a balance. We've all seen the movies, replayed the numerous 'Disney moments' where good triumphs over evil. But if that were the case, if every Mufasa was killed by Simba, or every evil queen was inadvertently put down by a gallant knight, would the world truly be a better place? Certainly it's a fascinating notion. A world free of injustice. A realm where being just is a matter of life and principle, and evil a thing of the far-flung past. Charity is the main order of the day, and so is compassion, virtue and honor. My question would be, how long would this charade last? If everyone were to give charitably, would not charity lose it's meaning? If everyone gave and never took, charity in turn becomes a paradox in itself. If everyone were honorable, what avenue would be left to distinguish one's self? Other than the primitive need of man to conquer, to control that he may shape honor in his image. Inevitably the failing of men to fall into the absolutes of good and evil serves as a blessing. Our struggles to define these two (ofttimes one becomes the other) have led to astounding developments. Not just in the field of philosophy, but in medicine and technology itself. So as I leave this rather long post (Which honestly has the makings of a good essay). I'd like you the reader, to ask yourself. Is there good and evil? Or are they an imaginary shapes shaped by culture and religion?