utopia in question?

watched charmed on tape last last night (thanks to my NICE dad)

and well.. the episode (Bad, Bad World, pt 2) was about good and evil elements being separated out completely to form two whole worlds...(ok.. something along that line)

and the result?

the GOOD world is always in DAY (cos night apparently is dark, dank and forbiddingly evil), and ANY infraction in rules is punished by amputation and so on.. so the hospitals are filled with such people (ie. one guy whom had his handphone on in the hospital had his arm chopped off, yet shurgged it off as his own fault)..

you can imagine the BAD world lah..

so at that, my sis burst out and we had a very heated argument over the show's portrayal of a seeming utopia..

utopia in question?

a world of only GOOD is actually BAD?

SIS: the show is already wrong when it says that there is evil in utopia (the infractions) when it should be ALL GOOD.

ME: in EDEN, the snake was evil, and EDEN was considered Utopia before Eve's act...

SIS: in EDEN existed freedom of choice (which in itself is a good thing), but the snake CHOSE something that was not GOOD.. hence EVIL was formed.

ME: so in the END, it seems the EDEN did HAVE evil from the start, in the form of evil thougts and ideas, and well, GOOD only exists when EVIL is there to contrast it, and that you cannot label a person good unless that is an equivalent evil counterpart.

YOU CANNOT DEFINE UTOPIA AS A PLACE OF ALL GOOD WHEN YOU NEED A FRACTION OF EVIL TO SHOW THAT GOOD IS GOOD.

SIS: It is a fallacy the society is trying to make us believe, that good cannot EXIST without evil. But GOOD CAN and it is only EVIL that exists only when there is GOOD, as evil is the absence of good, or in a scenario of making choices, evil is not choosing the right choice...

...so the squabble continues.. my brain aches too much for me to think of it... but.. consider..

so what is UTOPIA?

a place of ALL GOOD? so how do u identify GOOD without the EVIL?

and how would you deem a place UTOPIA, if it contains fractions of EVIL to SHOW that it is GOOD?
oh heck...
all this for a silly season finale of charmed..

frAnk