Seek Ye Not to Dichotomize the Earth

     You have asked me to describe in 150 words what philosophers have discussed for centuries and still cannot decide on, the very prospect seems flippant. As anyone who has ever thought about this subject knows, Positive and negative things are completely subjective and differ from person to person: were it not for us living in a society that abhors death, the killing of the elderly once they passed their point of relevance would only seem efficient. One might say that it is the corruption of the world that creates the bad in inherently good humans, but the assumption that everyone would able to live a clean and virtuous life were it simply not for temptation is ridiculous. People act in their best interests in most everything they do, and some may see this as selfish and wrong, though doing so would be very hypocritical. These people are not bad; serial killers are not bad, they do something they must to fulfill a need, and just happen to have the bad luck of living in a society that lacks an understanding of this.I personally fail to see the point in even establishing a difference between good and evil, to label things detracts from what they actually are, giving you a prejudice based on what its called. Things are neither good nor bad, all things are.
     What I mean to say by this is that you cannot describe something effectively to someone who has never experienced it. So descriptors like good and bad are superfluous to one who knows what you are talking about. And if you were to label actions and things with good and bad your description would be imperfect, because both good and bad exist in all things from time to time. But to say this mixture is gray is not what I want to guide the reader towards, release the idea of trying to put your finger on the composition of a thing. One must step back and look at it as a whole to begin to understand it; saying that kittens are good prevents you from realizing that their cry is eerily similar to that of a baby. My intent may be unclear up to this point but I only wish to show how our discussion of negative capability applies to even this attempt at a definition of the presiding dichotomies of the universe. Man is imperfect, Man's ideas are imperfect, and his understanding- no- his attempts at understanding of the universe will always be imperfect. For this reason I cannot in good conscience call something evil, or call something good; to even judge or measure at all feels like overstepping my cosmic dharma. Man is meant to have interest, experience and enjoy things, never to critique them, for he knows not of which he speaks.