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Is existence good or bad? 

Existence is positive due to its nature in being not nothing, for nothingness or oblivion is the essence of bad or evil, therefore existence is good by definition. However, why not nothingness be considered neutral? If nothingness is neutral, then existence is either positive or negative. If negative, then there is no potential for good, since the origin of all things or the beginning of it is bad. Then goodness if somehow blossoms in a field of bad is engulfed or encompassed in bad and eventually dies. Then, bad is original and then would thus have to be good due to it being original. 

If bad, however, is truly original as bad, it would destroy itself or defile itself as that is one among the many definitions, and even then would result in good as it would be self defeated. Nothing original can be bad and even if it were it would self defeat and be good in that capacity of defeating itself as bad. 

Good always defeats bad because bad is not original and if it were would self destruct. 

The thought of bad as original destroying itself is a primordial insight that comes from the nature of the mind to think in terms of the deeper truth that good is all encompassing. Even in imagining the greatest evil, the goodness of existence is the context within which it occurs in the mind. This is another proof for the goodness of existence.