What's there for us to have evil?
I beg to disagree.
If someone need to set up an evil enemy in order to show off his greatness, he is not that great after all. (There are countless examples in our history. I don't think it needs any elaboration.)
The problem is: Does evil exist?
Yes, we're back to square one.
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But, let's think of it. To a mouse, cats are evil - but not to the farmer who keeps cats at home. In fact, mouse is probably the evil to the farmer. (How about eliminating all mice? Jove, that would put an end to the cat as a domestic animal, and is the last thing that a cat wants. In fact, all human cats must remember this principle.)
Similarly, to the 19-year-old university student who wished to buy an apartment for his girlfriend, the superman is evil. However, a 70-year-old widow whose living depends on the dividend of stock #0001 would think otherwise.
The very question in philosophy and theology is, in fact, Is there anything that is absolutely good or evil, right or wrong, ethical or not?
I don't know, and I shall not pretend to be able to distinguish.
PS. The same topic is, in fact, rather hot amongst biologist: Is there any species on earth that we could eliminate without any inadvertent adverse effect?
Go read the article by Fern Wickson, and other related ones, in Nature on 25 August 2010.
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