>>> Andrew Masten on Black and White 
 AM> I don't think good and evil are equal counterparts. People routinely
 AM> do good for its own sake. I can't think of people doing evil for
 AM> evil's sake. 
 
 WE> They're called sadists.
 AM> No, sadists hurt others for sexual gratification. 
Check you dictionary and you will see that this is just one meaning.
 
 You
 AM> can't have a rotten apple without a good one to measure it by.
Bite into it, that'll tell you.
 
 WE> Besides good and bad there is also impartial.  Evil is an
 WE> emphatic sense of bad.  Many things deemed bad aren't considered evil.
 WE> Spilling milk for example.  So evil is not the opposite of good. >>>
 AM> I still say the measure of evil is how far off the mark it is
 AM> from good. As evil as Hitler was, at least at the beginning he
 AM> thought he was doing good for his country.
Hm, seems good and bad have subjective meanings.  
Good is how far off the mark it is from evil.
Just depends upon your viewpoint.
... The double standard:  are not two better than one?
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