Good and the Evil
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What does good and evil matter to an individual? Good and evil deeds, they are viewed with admiration and disgust from society's standpoint. An individual's own moral standards of good and evil is the true way of right and wrong, not society's moral standards. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess tells the story of moral control. P.R. Deltoid is enforcing the law of society's morals on to Alex to replace Alex's own sense of morality.
In the philosophical work of Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzche, Nietzche suggested that the concepts of good and evil are not dictated to us by any external force, such as God, or the natural order of the universe. Instead, we defined good and evil subjectively, individually, for ourselves. He also pointed out that an individual would change his or her morals depending on the necessity...