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    Logical Good and Evil
    Logical Good and Evil
    Logical Good and Evil
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    Logical Good and Evil

    By David Chang

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    Exploration of logical good and evil including: The difference between logical and emotional goodness, where habits, behavior, and personalities come from, time as meaning of life, animal versus human behavior, and more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Chang
    Release dateJul 8, 2017
    ISBN9781370492442
    Logical Good and Evil
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    David Chang

    Logical revelations I have learned from my interactions with angels. For more information, please visit my website at GlowingGuy.com.

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      Logical Good and Evil - David Chang

      Logical Good and Evil

      By: David Chang

      GlowingGuy.com

      Copyright 2022 David Chang

      Version 1.2

      Table of Contents

      1) Emotional versus Logical Goodness

      2) Harmony

      3) Habits, Behavior, and Personality

      4) Time As Meaning of Life

      5) Animal versus Human Behavior

      6) Dharma and Universal Justice

      7) Conclusion

      1) Emotional versus Logical Goodness

      People might have a general sense of what is good and evil, but what is the difference between emotional goodness and logical goodness?

      In our present-day world, we would often encounter people who would react to people's misfortunes and embarrassment by laughing at them and ridiculing them.  Although, they might lack empathy and compassion and their humor does not appear to be good, this does not necessarily mean that they are evil either because evilness requires the act of doing evil deeds to qualify as evil, meaning that evilness is not defined by the absence of goodness.

      In contrast, if you are empathetic and have a tendency to want to stop people from hurting and feeling pain, then you are likely an emotionally good person.  And, this is an emotional experience because you are vicariously feeling bad when you see other people hurting and suffering, which is an emotional feeling, and you want this bad feeling to end, maybe to the point that it moves you to action.  And, in the modern-day world, doing deeds to stop people from hurting is generally regarded as goodness.

      But, emotional goodness is not the same as logical goodness nor are they mutually exclusive, meaning that some deeds can be both emotionally and logically good.

      So, what is logical goodness? ... Please note that, to some people, logic simply refers to any reasoning, regardless of whether the reasoning is valid or not; whereas, in actuality, logic is the study of what makes conclusions valid or invalid.  As such, in order for a conclusion to be logical, it has to be valid from all reasonable, objective angles.  In contrast, an invalid conclusion is considered to be illogical ... As such, for a deed to be logically good, it has to be objectively good.  And, logical goodness could, at times, run counter to what an individual would consider to be emotionally good, especially if that individual is selfish, because emotions are subjective.

      As an example to illustrate the difference between logical and emotional goodness, let's consider whether the act of giving cash to the homeless is a good deed or not.

      You might have heard that the homeless might use money you give to them to purchase drugs ... This might not be true in all cases, but should be true for a percentage of the homeless population.

      As such, if you feel emotionally bad upon seeing someone homeless and hand out cash in response to your empathy and emotions, this gesture of generosity might end up stoking a drug addiction despite your good intentions, which could end up being logically bad, as a result.  And, please note that logically bad is not the same as evilness since there was no intention to cause malice.

      People who give cash to the homeless would typically want that cash to be used for something essential, like food, for example; and, as an alternative, some people would give food to the homeless instead of giving them cash, which demonstrates some degree of thinking to reach a reasonable solution to avoid accidentally supporting any bad habits.

      But, when people give cash or food to feed the homeless, they are assuming that the homeless are incapable of feeding themselves.  Whereas, in actuality, it is more reasonable to assume that the homeless would not idle by helplessly while starving and would be driven to go seek food on their own, such as in trash cans and other places where food might be discarded.

      As such, you typically don't see many homeless individuals asking for food, hear them complain about starvation, or see them appear to be emaciated, which suggests that their hunger is under control, such as by eating from the trash.

      As a result, money given to them might end up being used for something other than food, such as for their amusement and recreation, including possibly purchasing cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs, because they are likely feeling bored and sad while being homeless and would seek drugs to help themselves feel better, such as to make their homelessness feel more tolerable.

      And, because drugs could make their homelessness feel more tolerable, homeless individuals might feel a disincentive to end their homelessness, like a type of adaptation where homeless individuals get used to being homeless since they can find occasional pleasure and recreation through drugs, perhaps to the point that they would even view homelessness as a type of freedom considering how little work they have to do in order to survive, contrasted to how hard other people have to work to stay in houses, for example.

      As such, when you give cash to the homeless, you might actually be prolonging their homelessness, meaning that you might be unintentionally paying them to remain homeless, as a result.

      Furthermore, let us also consider how the average homeless individual does not have access to facilities to bathe/shower, brush their teeth, launder clothing, see doctors, or do other things related to their hygiene and health ... So, in actuality, when you give cash to the homeless, instead of helping their well-being, you might actually be doing the opposite and contributing to their future problems and torment!

      If you have given cash to the homeless in the past and are currently feeling bad at this point of reading, please consider how, at least, you are emotionally good to care about other people, contrasted to the many people in the world who seem to lack empathy and goodness, including those who would attack the homeless for fun!

      And, I am not suggesting that we should ignore the homeless either.

      Instead, logical goodness requires contemplation and thought to find the best way to logically solve problems and improve reality.

      Concerning the homeless, the best logical solution, relative to using your money to help the homeless in the modern-day world, seems to be to contribute to homeless charities, ideally reputable ones where the majority of the contributions are used to help the homeless (contrasted to paying for administrative costs and salaries), ideally charities that would offer services like job placement, drug addiction therapy, laundry service, health services, showers, etc.

      This would imply that, in order to help the homeless, the aim should be to end homelessness rather than to alleviate it with hand-outs.

      There is an expression, Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime ... And, giving money or food to the homeless is like giving a person a fish so that they could eat for a day; whereas, contributing to the right homeless charities might teach homeless individuals how to fish so that they could feed themselves for a lifetime (not that I am advocating people should eat fish, especially in the modern-day world since there are so many alternative ways to eat without having to kill animals).

      This concept is applicable to other things that you might do for other people, including for your loved ones, which could encourage them to form dependencies on you so that they would never learn how to perform those functions on their own ... For example, if you always cook for your children and

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