THE NUMBER AT THE END

so which is it ... death as a necessary lesson and therefore good ... or death as an evil never good ... both but with this correction ... even from evil good can be drawn especially to teach ... death or pain isn't good and never can be and that they sometimes seem to be good is only so because other things are worse ... which brings us to degree a false sense of degree and the absolute ... and this is where numbers come in ... they measure degrees and they measure them so well we'd like them to measure everything ... which would make everything a matter of degree ... which it isn't ... but you could apply them anyway and call the result an interpretation and a temporary one at that ... the numbers may change tomorrow ... democracy today autocracy tomorrow ... freedom here slavery there ... whatever works the numbers will tell us ... and you know when all is said and done you can't argue with the numbers ... they are what they are ... perfect reflections of the truth changing constantly as it does in our minds our cultures our lives ... to a precise degree ... forever ... until they hit a block which simply says no ... the end ... period