wtf wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:09 am
I don't agree with all of it but I do understand it.
Ditto here.
wtf wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:09 am
It seems to me that there are two distinct models here.
One is, say, the real number line. Numbers to the left of zero are negative and those to the right are positive. A negative number is NOT "still a little positive" at all. It's negative.
On the other hand, there's temperature. Freezing temp has less heat than boiling temp; but freezing is still a significant amount of heat. Anything above absolute zero is heat.
So there are qualities that are relative to a midpoint; and qualities that are absolute from nothing to something. Light is another example in the latter category. Dark is still some amount of light, unless you are in a specially designed totally dark environment.
Now it seems to me that good/evil are more like positive and negative numbers. Evil does not have "some good" in it on an absolute scale. There's bad action, neutral action, and good action. If you do me evil, you have not in any way done me a little good.
Clearly put.
Reread response to wtf, there are no two distinct models as the primary model is a number line...there is only one model. Positive or negative a line is still a line, and as such even when negative is a grade of the original one direction.