Like being able to fly, but for the price of having to find it boring

Good and evil are components of the one whole heart.

But what are these cogs in the moral machine? Evil, as I mention elsewhere, is a term of dismissal for what is inconceivable for ourselves, what we could never do or think or believe. Good, to hazard a guess, is what we invest our selves in, what we work at or value or, yes, believe. Our beliefs, after all, amount to a distinction between which actions or states we consider good, and which we consider evil(bad, wrong, not necessarily biblical); issues on which we are neutral have no component of belief to speak of, just knowledge.

It is not difficult to see how these two should be opposed, nor how they work together. The evil is the unknown, the alien and the Other, earth and the temptations of material reality; it is definitely not the good. The good has already been experienced, is known and comfortable and loved; it is definitely not a challenge.

This is what happens: we experience the unknown, and good battles evil. In doubt we find confusion, and lose our way, but if we persevere ignorance may always be conquered. Those faiths which vilify evil embrace the value that it has already been beaten by the wisdom of their particular faith, and now finds strength only in the hearts of unbelievers. Faiths which propose a balance or cycle of good and evil, on the other hand, express the view that learning is a continuing process, unpleasantly magical, and advise focusing on the magic.