Forget about "good as gold". Today it's going to get evil.
But who or what is evil at all?
The devil?
The Illuminati?
The mother in law?
Usually evil stands for morally wrong decisions,
an basic power which influences the history of the world
and which is the opponent of good.
That means, where light is, is also a shadow.
Obviously! God against the devil, the West against the terrorists,
Aspirin against headache ...
however back to the individual human being.
But who defines “morally wrong”?
Depending on the ethic position there are significant differences within the definition.
According to the critic of the Bible Benedict de Spinoza, evil is all
That blocks the self-assertion of every individual.
So, it´s a force from outside,
that prevents us humans from developing freely.
For Kant, evil is an essential part of human nature,
since humans are not only equipped with reason,
but also with "empirical", entirely worldly needs.
The inclination to the "dark side"-
so it has always been in us?
His fellow Enlightenment thinker Rousseau sees things differently.
For him, humans are born good.
Only living in the community (is what) poisons us, makes us evil.
Are we born evil, or does society make us evil?
Nietzsche threw all of this overboard,
declared "good" to be "bad"
and "evil" simply to be a construct of Christian "slave morality.”