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Good cannot exist without evil and evil cannot exist without good. — M. Night Shyamalan describing the film's use of superhero archetypes [ 12 ] Filmmaker and comic book writer Kevin Smith felt Unbreakable was briefly similar to a comic book titled Mage: The Hero Discovered , written and illustrated by Matt Wagner .
…it is possible that one thing in relation to another may be evil, and at the same time within the limits of its proper being it may not be evil. Then it is proved that there is no evil in existence; all that God created He created good. This evil is nothingness; so death is the absence of life. When man no longer receives life, he dies.
The fourth-century theologian Augustine of Hippo adopted the privation theory, and in his Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love, maintained that evil exists as "absence of the good". [65] God is a spiritual, (not corporeal), Being who is sovereign over other lesser beings because God created material reality ex nihilo. Augustine's view of evil ...
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Evil may be said to exist in the same way the hole of a donut exists: the donut was created, but the hole itself was not made, it was just never filled in – it is an absence. [10] And just as the hole could not exist without the donut, evil is parasitic upon good, since it is the corruption of a good nature. "God is infinite, and the devil is ...
The theodicy argues that humans have an evil nature in as much as it is deprived of its original goodness, form, order, and measure due to the inherited original sin of Adam and Eve, but still ultimately remains good due to existence coming from God, for if a nature was completely evil (deprived of the good), it would cease to exist. [50]
No Good Deed does have an undeniably fantastic cast at its disposal, from Luke Wilson as an unhappy soap actor to Linda Cardellini as a blonde temptress, from Denis Leary as a dangerous ex-con to ...
"Consequentialists", as described by Peter Singer, "start not with moral rules, but with goals.They assess actions by the extent to which they further those goals." [8]: 3 Singer also notes that utilitarianism is "the best-known, though not the only, consequentialist theory."