He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
It__ still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we__ be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We__ be rich and they__ be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They__e all full of it. Nothing balances out.
The Drowned Cities
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It__ still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we__ be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We__ be rich and they__ be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They__e all full of it. Nothing balances out.
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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was teh way of the world that Dostoevksy depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.
You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?