What is good, and what is evil?
That's either a very good or a very bad question to be asking a Shinigami. It's usually when we start asking ourselves that kind of thing that Enma starts looking for someone to ascend.
For me? Good and evil are ideal terms- by defining ideal as follows: existing only as an idea, confined to the imagination, visionary, not practical. Mathematically might make more sense- of a number or quality: having no actual existence, but assumed for some purpose in a system.
Not that they have no meaning, but rather that they don't exist in an absolute form.
Any person, any act incorporates some degree of both, which makes our jobs a rather murky grey area. It's too easy to go insane looking for the black and white.
If Bon hadn't been killed the way he was, Tsuzuki would be gone now- no matter how much we might wish to classify Muraki as evil, good things have come of his actions. And every one of us has had to take those we wished didn't have to die, and come away wondering whether we ourselves were serving good or evil.
Ultimately, we keep the order of the universe- and the only measure is the progression of entropy. Good and evil are part of human perception.
And I possibly don't worry about them as often as I should.
For me? Good and evil are ideal terms- by defining ideal as follows: existing only as an idea, confined to the imagination, visionary, not practical. Mathematically might make more sense- of a number or quality: having no actual existence, but assumed for some purpose in a system.
Not that they have no meaning, but rather that they don't exist in an absolute form.
Any person, any act incorporates some degree of both, which makes our jobs a rather murky grey area. It's too easy to go insane looking for the black and white.
If Bon hadn't been killed the way he was, Tsuzuki would be gone now- no matter how much we might wish to classify Muraki as evil, good things have come of his actions. And every one of us has had to take those we wished didn't have to die, and come away wondering whether we ourselves were serving good or evil.
Ultimately, we keep the order of the universe- and the only measure is the progression of entropy. Good and evil are part of human perception.
And I possibly don't worry about them as often as I should.