What is supreme good and monstrous evil?

[minjaeyang]

In an epic, there often are conflicts between supreme good versus monstrous evil. Let's connect to our lives. In real life, what is supreme good and monstrous evil? For me, supreme good is peace and monstrous evil  is war. This is because many innocent people die because of other's greed. This brings physical and mental pain to many. Peace on the other hand, brings harmonious society in which everyone helps each other. In my perspective, there is conflict struggle between war and peace, although they may not be visible.

[sujeonggg]

For me, supreme good is rest and monstrous evil is homework. These two are always fighting in my life and I am the one who is searching for my supreme good. Like your example, my monstrous evil also brings me physical and mental pain because I have to stay up to do my work rather than lolling around in the bed. My supreme good, on the other hand, makes me happy and feel fresh.

[jessicak016]

Haha, sujeong, I reallly like your example. I also try to get as much as sleep as I can.
In my view, the world is a balance between the supreme good and monstrous evil. Supreme good is equality, happiness, and justice, while the monstrous evil is the opposite of the supreme good, the inequality, sadness, anger, rage and injustice. As you said, there will always be a conflict between the supreme good and monstrous because I think that one cannot exist without the other.

[sang]

I don't think that there is such a thing as supreme good nor supreme evil. Even the antagonist in the story that we are studying right now, which is Ramayna, turns out that he could've been a benefactor or a "good guy" at some point if he hadn't made the wrong decisions. Even the supreme good, such as heroes, has their moments of sinister acts and such. I can't think of example off the top of my head, but ya'll know what I mean. so yeah, for that, I think that such thing as "supreme" good or evil is non-existant.

[davidh]

Well supreme good would be people's hobby. The only time that people would have fun is when they are enjoying their hobbies. They do it because they enjoy that certain moment. On the other hand, the monstrous evil would be work in general. People get stress from it whether it is studying, job or duty at home. This is probably the most important and unavoidable task that people has to do.

[sarahlee2]

I do agree that there are a lot of themes of good and evil. I think its everywhere. There is nothing really that doesn't have good or evil. All the books always have an antagonist. However, I think for a lot of things good and evil are subjective to people's opinions. But for me, supreme good is God and monstrous evil is Satan. I think its like that for most Christians.

[seongrae]

For our society, people¡¯s supreme good would be their interest. In every people¡¯s life, people need to have happiness in their life. They have to do something that they like to live and earn money. The monstrous evil would be one¡¯s sadness or envy of other people. They will be sad and lose hope if they envy people. Therefore, the supreme good and monstrous evil would be one¡¯s happiness and sadness in their life.

[franicaza95]

I believe that there are cases where we could believe that supreme good and supreme evil could exist but there could also be moments where we could say its non-existant. For example, heroes and villains, villains are usually the ones who cause disasters and create problems in a society and the heroes are the ones who protect the society and do what is right to help evryone but don't you think that for the heroes to actually be heroes, also in a way have to be kinda defensive? I mean when we think of violence, we think bad.i just think that we are always gonna go back to the balance thing, there's has to be good in order to be evil.

[RegXD]

Supreme good to me is where world is free from bad things and everything that could consider bad. and Monstrous Evil would be everything in the world turns evil and act evil such as killing people ever second for the fun of it. which i thing is the worst idea ever.

[joannekim]

I think there are few things that are supreme good or bad. Most things have both good and bad sides. For example, I think both heroes and villains from several action movies can be considered evil because both of them cause destruction as they fight. As I watch those movies, I wonder how difficult it would be to rebuild all infrastructure later. I also read a book which states that war, which causes so much deaths, helps to improve technology. People debate whether certain issues are bad or good, and I think it is better to assume that there are both good and bad sides. Therefore, most things are not supreme bad or good.

[cesar]

I don't think I want to have two extremes like that. I think that many things in life are just a bit too complicated to put them in two categories like that. I like to believe that there is always things in between and while tragedies like war and genocide are horrible and unforgettable I also believe that they aren't painted in a single shade. So I guess my answer would be that there is no extreme evil or extreme good but instead many things inbetween

[elijahlee]

I totally agree with Cesar on this topic. I think that conflicts are too complex to be able to categorize into 'good' and 'evil.' Though this may happen in movies, in real life this never really happens. Take the Israel-Palestine conflict for example. Can you honestly say that one side is the supreme good side and the other side is the monstrous evil side? No, it is impossible to make this generalization, because both sides, as Cesar so eloquently put it, not 'painted in a single shade.' Both sides of the conflict did wrong to the other side, and both sides have done both good and evil things. It also really depends on your perspective for you to determine who you think is in the right and who you think is in the wrong. Also, the conflicts have

[stormy44]

It's really hard to define supreme good for me.. But I think love is the strongest of all and the bible supports my argument hehehhehe.. Monstrous evil in my life is tiredness.. I'm always tired at school and even the menial task we're given seems extremely difficult. This certainly is "evil" because it stops me from doing things, and pushing myself to the edge. Maybe it's the college stuff that's tiring me out.. Even answering some questions on DiscussionBoard is annoying..

[joon]

Like we discussed how good and evil changes according to different beliefs and ideas, whether something is supreme good or monstrous evil is subjective to one's perspective and opinions. Since people decide on what is good and what is evil, their beliefs and way of thinking influences their judgement. For me, as a christian, the absolute good would be God, and the worst evil would be greed. If you think about it, ever since we can remember people have been destroying in order to get what they want.

[julielu]

In my opinion, I agree that supreme good is peace. However, I think war doesn't necessarily mean monstrous evil. The reason why people fight is because they want to have peace by forcing others. In the my definition, I consider discriminating people is evil but discriminating disadvantaged people is monstrous evil. Bullying someone is evil but combining people to bully someone is monstrous evil.