![]() ![]() However, a "necessary evil" by definition has "Good" qualities, and it's those good qualities that are valuable. For example, if there's too much goodness and peace, would "balance" mean that one should allow a healthy dose of rape and murder in the world? The general line of reasoning is that if Good were allowed to triumph, there would be no-one to check its power and it would become despotic - except, by definition, that would mean it had become Evil and was no longer Good, as it's otherwise a bit difficult to explain why a world of eternal benevolence, peace and prosperity is a bad thing.Īnother line of reasoning is that since some Evil is necessary to prevent something worse, then that extends to "Evil" in general. Works may employ it without examining it too closely, because balance is always good, right? Yet the actual implications are pretty horrifying. ![]() There are several challenges to writing this trope believably, mostly because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. ![]()
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