http://kybernetikos.com/2004/04/21/purity/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://kybernetikos.com/2004/04/21/purity/#comment-13 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:44:46 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2004/04/21/purity/#comment-13 We must not accept that there is no such thing as purity simply because we live in a world of dilutions. If we say there can be no good without evil and no evil without good, then we give up the right to judge evil behaviour. If we say there can be no happiness without sadness, then we destroy innocence. Indeed, you might not understand happiness before sadness throws it into relief, but you do not say "I was not happy then for I had not been sad", but rather "I had no name for what I was then, but now I have been sad, I know it was happiness". We must not accept that there is no such thing as purity simply because we live in a world of dilutions. If we say there can be no good without evil and no evil without good, then we give up the right to judge evil behaviour. If we say there can be no happiness without sadness, then we destroy innocence. Indeed, you might not understand happiness before sadness throws it into relief, but you do not say “I was not happy then for I had not been sad”, but rather “I had no name for what I was then, but now I have been sad, I know it was happiness”.

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