Goodman Jax, I will approach your statements and questions in the philosophical vein that I believe you have intended them. If I am in error regarding your intentions, please feel free to correct me.
Cerulean Jax said:
Because there is a balance to everything.
Existence does not imply necessity. I can have an orange ball with a red core. Does this then mean that orange must be cored by red? What is the basis by which you test your theory?
If you have light, you must also have dark.
Dark does not exist. There is light that you can perceive, and light that you cannot. "Dark" is simply a phrase used to refer to the latter. There is no such thing as "dark". (Indeed, a quest undertaken by a former companion of mine, Baron Kiril Darkcloud, depended greatly on his ability to discern the difference and know it to be true)
I have visited and in fact lived in lands that have never known night, and likewise realms in which daylight has never brooked the sky. My experience, then, tells this to be false.
Good must have Evil. Right must have Wrong. Life must have Death.
Bold statements do make a thing true. To start, good and evil, and right and wrong, for all intents and purposes, may, by some, be seen as simple discussions of "stuff I agree with" and "stuff I don't agree with". When viewed in that light, Good and Evil can be said to not actually exist.
Without a balance, they both suffer.
Examples?
But i'm beginning to question whether the Strega was really the one threatening the balance...or was she attempting to set it all straight again?
At its core, the Stregga sought to remove the world as it was, and replace it with the world that she would have be. It is not a question of whether or not she was an agent of your questionable theory of balance, but survival. In order for the people to survive as they were, she needed to not survive. It is not a matter of cosmic right versus cosmic wrong. It is a matter of continuing to exist, or not.
Perhaps the balance has been destroyed, not by her, but by stopping her.
You seem to contradict yourself. If balance exists in everything, how can defeating her, or having her win, "destroy the balance". Surely there must be balance in that as well, by your theory?
Ultimately, questions of whether or not we as individuals or as a people in totem are doing the "right" thing are futile, if we think to be measured in some universal manner. There is no scale against which we can balance the morality of our actions. In the end, it comes down to choices. Do I (speaking in the general) choose to serve the King and use him as my guide for what is right and good? Or do I choose to serve my inner conscience? From a philosophical stance, can either be trusted throughout all time and experience?
In the end, there are values we have. Those which support those values we term as "Good" and those which act counter to those values values we term as "Evil". The Stregga sought to act counter to the values of the people as a whole, and thus, can be accurately seen as evil, and needing to be stopped. Similarly, those who acted independently but in a manner that assisted her in achieving her goals can also been seen as such.
The Stregga was not so much a question of evil, as being against us. And thus are the lines drawn.
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Sir Gregor
