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From a modern viewpoint, I fail to comprehend how Order/Chaos is not merely a special case of Good/Evil. Biological life/intelligence, and the Earth it inhabit

• tkxxx7 9y ago
  A funny consequence is that Order vs. Chaos is almost entirely dependent on the scale you consider.
• canadaduane 9y ago
  Perhaps it's the psychological effect that's salient--the honor/shame spectrum, rather than the good-explanation/bad-explanation spectrum.
• nl 9y ago
  While there is some overlap of Good/Evil and Order/Chaos it's pretty easy to show how "Order" can be "Evil". Totalitarian regimes have that name because they demand total control and react strongly to any disorder. They are generally regarded as towards the "Evil" end of the Good/Evil spectrum. In reality the OP is right - they are different things.
• krapp 9y ago
  One does not have to assume that order is good, and chaos is evil. Within a universe of absolute order, there can be no change, and no life can emerge. Within a universe of absolute chaos, there can be no structure, and no life can emerge. Neither is good, or evil, since those are human cultural constructs, and not fundamental physical laws or universal constants. Even life itself isn't necessarily good or evil, any more than a star or dust cloud is good or evil, it's just one of the many possible states that matter and energy can take as the universe inevitably exhausts itself.