Reply #29: And you could flip that construct and try to claim that good is just the

[MADem]

absence of evil. But it isn't. Good is proactive, like the boy scout helping the little old lady across the street. Evil is proactive, too, like that same boy scout deciding to beat the crap out of the little old lady and steal her ragged little purse.

The boy scout just ambling along ignoring the little old lady is neither good, nor evil.

Simplistic explanation, but illustrative of my point.