Good on its own can exist independently of evil. Evil cannot exist without the good. We must take that to heart in this coming dark time, for it will be a beacon of hope to us all. If there is evil in this world there MUST be at least a small glimmer of goodness. And that goodness can grow.
I write to men and women who live by virtues, who live to better themselves and the ones around them, the ones who believe in morality over power.
Our enemies believe only in power. They believe that morals lead to a slave mentality, but this is their folly. Because they have no compass to guide them, they themselves will become slaves. Slaves to the greed and lust of power. In their world victory goes to the strongest, and who is the strongest changes quite rapidly.
Be brave and be strong, and know that if good exists, then the fight is not over. We all inherit the eternal struggle; and evil, no matter how domineering it is , how powerful it appears cannot exist without good, and that will be its downfall.
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Wherefore, the ends of the law which the Holy One hath given, unto the inflicting of the punishment which is affixed, which punishment that is affixed is in opposition to that of the happiness which is affixed, to answer the ends of the atonement—
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God.
And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness. And if there be no righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery. And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.
TAO TE CHING —one of five Chings, Great books of ancient non-communist China (of which the greatest is I CHING that gave birth to the concept of YIN and YANG and influenced thinkers from Voltaire to Jung)— states clearly:
And more: https://www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu02.html [chapter 2 of 81]
This is a fundamental text with timeless application – both in theoretical and practical sense. More relevant then ever.
Not a counter-argument — just a thought.
I come from the Western ideas of Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinias. In their framework evil is a corruption of good. From this starting point I reach the above conclusion.
If you start out with a different definition of evil, then you reach a different conclusion.
But your way of looking at thing is no less interesting a framing.