> > Having established that good and evil are both needed...
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> One quibble. "Unhappiness" and "evil" aren't even close to comparable concepts. I do believe that unhappiness is important, for with unhappiness comes learning and change. Nobody needs evil.

Yeah, I oversimplified that one. I was trying to make a concise statement at the expense of turning the world inte Black & White. Have we ever seen that done before....

However, if one accepts that evil is relative - that is, one must have evil in order to know good - then one may hope that one day, the world has improved to the point where unhappiness is the most evil there exists.
But then again, I was arguing that some amount of unhappiness was a good thing - and hence it cannot be evil.

jul"somebody stop this rambling! OK."ian