> > > Having established that good and evil
are both needed...
> >
> > One quibble. "Unhappiness" and "evil"
aren't even close to comparable concepts.
>
> But then again, I was arguing that some
amount of unhappiness was a good thing -
and hence it cannot be evil.

Unhappiness is not evil, it is the result of evil.
If there were no evil (sin) in the world, would
there be unhappiness?

I'm trying to think about this in terms of how
the world should be, ideally, rather than how
the world actually is. If mankind had never
fallen; if evil and sin had never entered into the
equation, would there be unhappiness? I don't
think there would be.

If unhappiness is a direct result of evil, can it
truly be said that unhappiness is good? Good
for us, yes, in the world as it exists today, but
intrinsically good? I don't think so.

Gri"overthinking this"shny