Attention all fiction readers and writers! I would love to debate this with you all in person, but commenting is the next best thing.
From whence comes evil?
If darkness is the absence of light rather than its opposite, is evil then the absence, and not the oppostite, of good?
If this premise is true, what does it mean for the character development of our villains?
Are his/her actions despicable because he/she is choosing to ignore good, or because there is no choice?
Does the "bad guy" have good in him that has merely been surpressed? Or does good come back to him, after being absent, through outside influences? i.e. the "good guy"
