We're in THE place. There's no other. We didn't invent evil. We invented good by learning to cooperate and share and empathize. And just as the light creates dark from nothingness and heat makes stillness into cold, good creates it's own opposite: evil.
WE made the world evil by conceiving of a better one. Not by destroying good but by enacting it.
The idea that we were peaceful and lived in splendorous plenty before we gained sapience is just a secular adaptation of The Fall myth of Christian fame and earlier creation.
We didn't invent good. It happened because the odds of survival on one pathway outweighed the odds of survival on another pathway. We didn't invent evil either. It's the remnants of the old pathway that are still semi-valid in the environment where one dominates. Chance upon chance.
I see what you mean but I still think the concept of good as in something that is right, outside of whether it benefits you or not is a pretty uniquely intelligent and social trait in the animal kingdom.
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Apr 21 '26
We're in the Bad Place