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When we speak of ethics, we are talking about right and wrong conduct. We are talking about good and evil.
Good can be considered to be a constructive survival action. It happens that no construction can take place without some small destruction, just as the tenement must be torn down to make room for the new apartment building.
To be good, something must contribute to the individual, to his family, his children, his group, mankind or life. To be good, a thing must contain construction which outweighs the destruction it contains. A new cure which saves a hundred lives and kills one is an acceptable cure.
Good is survival. Good is being more right than one is wrong. Good is being more successful than one is unsuccessful, along constructive lines.
Things are good which complement the survival of the individual, his family, children, group, mankind, life and MEST [the physical universe. A word coined from the initial letters of Matter, Energy, Space and Time].
Acts are good which are more beneficial than destructive along these dynamics.
Evil is the opposite of good, and is anything which is destructive more than it is constructive along any of the various dynamics. A thing which does more destruction than construction is evil from the viewpoint of the individual, the future race, group, species, life or MEST that it destroys.
When an act is more destructive than constructive, it is evil. It is out-ethics. When an act assists succumbing more than it assists survival, it is an evil act in the proportion that it destroys.
Good, bluntly, is survival. Ethical conduct is survival. Evil conduct is nonsurvival.
Construction is good when it promotes survival. Construction is evil when it inhibits survival. Destruction is good when it enhances survival.
An act or conclusion is as right as it promotes the survival of the individual, future race, group, mankind or life by making the conclusion. To be entirely right would be to survive to infinity.
An act or conclusion is wrong to the degree that it is nonsurvival to the individual, future race, group, species or life responsible for doing the act or making the conclusion. The most wrong a person can be on the first dynamic is dead.
The individual or group which is, on the average, more right than wrong (since these terms are not absolutes, by far) should survive. An individual who, on the average, is more wrong than right will succumb.
While there could be no absolute right or absolute wrong, a right action would depend upon its assisting the survival of the dynamics immediately concerned; a wrong action would impede the survival of the dynamics concerned.
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