Good and evil are not physically tangible. There is no good and evil. They are constructs of the human mind. We made them up. There is nothing that dictates what is right or wrong. Believing in a god could be one way people make the idea of good and evil have real meaning to them.

There’s no way to prove there’s good and evil, so there is no absolute value of good and evil. They’re made up by societies to keep people in line. The idea of good and evil is there to make people get along with each other more easily. What’s right and wrong are really what can make the most people happy in a group. It’s utilatarian by nature.

Good and evil change for societies. Some view some things as evil when others don’t. Ideas also change between people. There’s no way to prove one view point is right unless you define it as before.

I’ll add something else to the definition: what causes the greatest amount of happiness in the most people. Since the suffering of a few causes discomfort in many, it actually isn’t utilatarian to do something such as genocide.

However, what if something, like killing one innocent person to prevent the deaths of others, was wiped from history, and no one knew about it… would it then be utilitarian? Would it be good or evil? Those who believe in a god can feel confident that it is evil. I say, it may in the long run. If no person knows about it, then people are happy. It is good.

Tomorrow, I’ll connect this to the fact that everything a person does is for selfish reasons.