The Rescue of Good vs. Evil

Given all that my eyes have seen and my ears have heard, I turn to Philosophy to try and salvage some of the dualism, dichotomy, Manichaeism, or whatever it may be called. I need help to see the world, and especially Brazil, today.

With the loss of clear meaning in the definitions and limits of good and evil, transgression (I speak from an ethical and moral perspective) loses its weight, it ceases to exist. And we need to identify them somehow.

Using references to good and evil helps us to face facts and opinions with more clarity, as if we were seeing what happens in HD and could thus place things on the correct mental shelves.

In other words, without the values ​​of Good and Evil, it becomes much more difficult to adopt models of conduct worth replicating. There is only transgression if there is "sin," there is only merit in good.

Don't think of me as old-fashioned, prudish, or Manichean. More than belonging to a particular ideology, political party, or religious belief, I want to be someone who believes in Good. Yes, like in superhero stories.

I don't want to judge or classify based on color, social class, or nationality.

I don't want to label him based on his explosive temper or the number of sexual partners he's had.

I don't want to pigeonhole people based on the brand of clothes they wear or the neighborhood where they live.

There's only one classification that I want to use more and more:

Good people and bad people.

I want to separate the wheat from the chaff.

To identify good and evil. I want to contrast them as clearly as possible.

Making mistakes is the norm. We are human. But making a mistake is different from doing evil. I want people who make mistakes, learn from them, become more human, and do good.
I turn to Plato.

He believed that good was like the sun. Without the sun, no one sees anything. Without the sun, not even the crack in his cave makes sense.

Analogously, without good there is neither justice nor truth.

I want Plato - timeless, without an expiration date, hipster Plato.

I'll stick with what's good - a philosophical choice that never goes out of style.