maximalminimality

Now, I will unveil the most shocking, mind-boggling, mindset-challenging equation that will blow your brains away, and make you think in a way that you have never thought you could possibly do:

Seriously.

Your first reaction would be, "You don't know how to count, is it?" The ordinary individual would know that 1 + 1 is indeed equivalent to 2, not 4. But, let's break this problem down beyond just the surface.

"What is 1?"

"It's mathematical value signifying a single unit."

"I see."

"So what happens if everyone associated 1 with another value? Would 1 + 1 = 2 still hold true?"

It wouldn't.

That is the problem. Even mathematical terms require its value to be relative to something else. 1 would be relative to half of 2. Or a quarter of 4. Get the picture?

"So, is there anything that is constantly absolute?"

No. Everything is related to something else through relativism. This is the basis for Einstein's theory of relativity. A round object is round because other objects aren't. A huge building is huge because other objects are tiny. Good acts are good because other acts are evil.

"HOLD ON!"

"I quite don't agree with the last point. I believe that there is absolute good existing somewhere."

When morality jumps into this subject of relativism, things gets a little complicated. Because now we have to introduce another value: subjectivism.

"Isn't evil just simply the absence of good?"

"If you put it that way, can't good be the absence of evil instead?"

Ah.

There are two question we need to ask here:
1. Why do we have to put everything relative to a positive value?
2. In a environment with a control (absence of something) factor, is absence still relative or absolute?
(Go find the answers yourself, I'm tired of doing all the explaining.)

To answer first question, I have to say that we tend to make ourselves look good and orderly. We tend to be optimistic when it comes to scientifically assigning moralities.

To answer the second question, let's look at it this way. If the presence of a factor is 1, is the absence of it 0 (zero)? Does 0 have a value?

Yes.

0 is 1 value less than 1, but 1 value more than -1.

Okay...

"Now how about God? Isn't God 100% good?"

"He is, but that's not where it ends."

"If God was only 100% good, why has He created Satan?"

If God was ONLY [edited] 100% good, he cannot possibly create any form of evil in the world. God is 100% everything.

If God was not both good and evil, we wouldn't have choices. Choices emerge because they is a distinct and relative difference between values. If God was 100% good, he would have created a world which was 100% good, and every action we would have taken would be based on the relative value of 100% good. There will not be choice.

"So, if God is 100% good and 100% evil, why do people see Him more as good?"

(OMG, I can't believe you are even asking this question!!!)

Because He chose to!

Choice is the reason why everyone accepts 1 + 1 = 2 as true. Choice is the same reason why 1 + 1 = 4 could also hold true in situations.

Choosing to believe that 1 + 1 = 4 does make the person wrong relative to the general public, but it doesn't make the person abnormal.

Because choice is all there is.