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Re: Balor, what, the Great?
Posted By: Forrest of B.org (ip68-6-118-241.sb.sd.cox.net)
Date: 8/13/2002 at 5:32 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Balor, what, the Great? (Forrest of B.org)
: But see, that's only because you define "good"
: as "wants to build and prosper". If you're a
: luddite and think technology and civilization are an
: affront to nature, then demolishing the world's cities
: and annihilating the sentient population could be
: considered a good thing :-)
On a tangent, consider a couple of extremes of various polarizations:
Destructive - "Blow up the planet!"
Constructive - "Pave over the planet and build apartments and office buildings!"
Chaos - "Tear down the laws! No rules! Anarchy!"
Order - You spit on the sidewalk! Off with your head!
Individual - "I'll do what's good for me no matter who else it hurts!"
Collective - Look at what happened to Communist Russia.
It works with any pole of any axis you think of; extreme is always bad, balance is always good. Ironically, this also applies to the axis of balance/extremes too, so "absolute balance" is in itself an extreme, one which would be horribly boring, and the "ideal" is a balance BETWEEN balance and the various extremes.
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