To me the question revolves entirely around whether you're hurting others.
There is nothing evil about being a playboy unless while doing so you callously hurt other people.
I saw this movie last night and the entire consensus reality image of good and evil that it presents is typical and highly distorted, as far as i'm concerned. On every front there is inaccuracy.
If "good" is about helping others then it doesn't make sense to waste your time taking photos to make money. Spiderman could use his powers to easily feed himself and then devote more of his energy towards helping people. There is a consensus reality assumption that good people must neccessarily inflict suffering on themselves, when that is just ridiculous. Inflicting any kind of suffering has no point. The core of being "good" is caring about others, not hating yourself. A good person helps people at his own expense but that doesn't mean he actually inflicts needless suffering on himself.
If "evil" is about helping yourself, including at the expense of others, then none of the villains actually approach evil. The Sandman is thinking about his daughter while Goblin Jr. thinks of his father. These people aren't evil they are just screwed up unpolarized, and as we saw in the movie they all came to realise that. The weak often lash out in violence and so most criminals are not powerful, most as weak. This applies to the Spiderman3 villains since they are essentially petty criminals who come across superpowers for the sake of drama. I mean an all-powerful sand god has to rob an armored car? It's ridiculous. That man is not intelligent or powerful or evil he is just a typical stupid criminal with some screwed up mental patterns.
Most people are not polarized to either good or evil, their intentions waver back and forth hourly, and their behavior falls in the middle. This applies to the 3 villains.
The idea that "good" people must be dorky and unattractive is a huge misconception. Take a look at the Pick Up Artist community and the huge range of seduction specialists - they truly run the gamut from total selfishness to total selflessness. It's been said many times that confidence is attractive - and confidence in a "good" polarity is just as attractive as confidence in a "bad" polarity.
In my own life i've experienced both. I can unapologetically be a selfless "good guy" and through that be very attractive, or I can unapologetically be a conniving and selfish "evil guy" and that is also attractive.
What is unattractive is to be a confused guy trapped between the two - unsure of myself, inactive, weak, submissive.
It's the confidence and power that is attractive. Confidence and power is a natural result of polarization, and it doesn't matter which way you polarize. But most people simply don't polarize either way.
Polarizing to the Good gets just as much confidence and power as polarizing to the evil.
Are you gonna call Jesus unconfident, weak, anxious, powerless?
Are you gonna call Martin Luther King Jr. weak, timid, submissive?
Good is powerful, confident, active.
Evil is powerful, confident, active.
Consensus society is unpolarized, weak, timid, submissive.
Don't confuse True Good with consensus reality "good".  |