(2017-09-27, 12:48 PM)jkmac Wrote: Why not?
What if it lead to mankind's existence (or at least preeminence)? Isn't that "good"?
What if it lead to an ice age, that resulted in the development of our larger brain? Isn't that good?
I don't mean these questions to be goading or trolling: I'm being totally serious.
Isn't it possible to look at the near destruction of life on the earth as beneficial? Good?
I'd say it is clearly so.
Once we see this, the next step is to acknowledge that we are not omnipotent or omniscient. We don't have a large enough scope, or perspective, or understanding of our existence, to know the difference between bad and good. Further I'd say that distinction doesn't even have any meaning, mostly because it is unknowable.
Why not? - Well I guess it led to suffering of living creatures on a massive scale over quite a period of time. I don't think suffering is a good thing, though it seems to be part of the universe. I am not saying that good things can't come from it.
If it led to our existence, it was good for us I suppose but not for a lot of the life around then.
Having a large brain doesn't seem to be helping humanity much at the moment :
The process of destruction isn't good but like a lot of things, we can extract good things from it perhaps.