Repost of my 'Good vs Bad' theory for discussion

gracefaith said:

I'm thinking maybe the Others are operating on some sort of false assumption about where they are, what's going on in the world and who else is out there. I think they think they are protecting themselves from someone - the survivors maybe. Let's face it, the survivors have killed a few of their people (and vice versa.) It's like everyone's been plunked in the middle of a war and are fighting based entirely on the assumption that they are right and good and need to fight for their lives against the other side that is evil and wrong. The question is: which side is which? Maybe they're both neither.

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gracefaith said:

BTW I just had a (possible) REVELATION.

If the Others think they are fighting a war against the Survivors because the Survivors are bad and the Survivors are fighting a war against the Others because they think the Others are bad, maybe they're both wrong and the whole "good vs bad, black vs white" concept is brought up ironically. IE there is no good/bad, black/white. It's more muddled than that. The Dharma ying/yang sort of reminds me of it because of the concept of a little darkness in light and a little light in darkness.

Maybe Dharma was trying to see how far people would go based entirely on assumption or vague suggestion. They have people watching each other and thinking certain things. Maybe they even have people fighting each other because they've been led to think certain things.

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