Is a World Without Bad Desirable? Is it Possible?

I do not think a world without “bad” is desirable or possible.   A world without any bad aspect would hypothetically be a world where everyone were perfectly content at any given moment and no one desired anything they couldn’t have.  If this situation were possible, life would be dreary and terrible.

Ignore the already present contradiction that a life without bad aspects would be “bad” in some sense.  Instead, think about what really makes life rewarding.  To me, accomplishing a goal is what makes life rewarding, be it making money, maintaining a relationship, learning, or what have you.  To accomplish these goals, one must deal with many “bads,” such as risking money, getting in fights with a significant other, spending long hours at a library in confusion, etcetera.

Another way to look at it is that the “bads” in life are what make the “goods” worth having.  Peace wouldn’t be considered so valuable if we didn’t know the horrors of war.  Medical inventions wouldn’t be worthwhile if no one ever got sick.  These things are “goods” today, but in a world without bads nobody would care about them.

A world without bads is impossible.  Bad is the opposite of good, and both are relative terms.  If something is good, it has to be because it moves us away from a bad.  If there are no bads, then do goods really matter?

I’m just kind of rambling here, but if there is a point, the point is this.  The bad aspects in life: poverty, war, disease, death and others are there for a reason.  We would be complacent, boring individuals in a fantasy utopia where these things did not exist.  The bads at least make life interesting…

Let me know of your thoughts…