Recently, I've put some thought into the "what is nothing" thing. I've realized why it's so difficult to figure out.

It's an absolute. There may be other reasons, but I've determined that just about every time one deals with absolutes, those ideas will, eventually, contradict themselves.

I can't say "water is good", or "water is bad" because it's so dynamic. It can support life, or it can destroy, and even then, some times the latter helps more than the former. If there's too much or too little of something, or something is misplaced, it can always end up doing wrong instead of good. I can't say "there's never too much of a good thing", because apparently there are quite a few alcoholics in the world that prove otherwise. In fact, it's not things that are good or bad, but what you use them for.

I don't mean this politically at all, but let's say I live in a town where roughly... ninety percent of all crimes, notably break ins are committed with crowbars. Let's say I own a crowbar. Now, I, being a law abiding citizen, am not going to use it for anything other and general "crowbar type stuff" and possibly for unconventionally using it if somebody else breaks into my home. Does the fact that criminals use crowbars for break ins mean I'm a criminal, or that crowbars are evil? No, it doesn't. What it means is that if I have one, I should use it responsibly and not for playing Gordon Freeman with people's stuff. The same can be applied to life: criminals live, and use their being alive to commit horrible crimes. Does that mean every citizen should be killed? No.

See, that's a problem with reasoning with "constants" and "absolutes"; it isn't reasoning at all, because all it does is take simple ideas, and compares them to what are, at the moment, either completely considered null, or absolutely correct in the mind comparing them. "Constants" are never constant, absolutes are physically impossible in a mortal world.

Therefore, it is more logical to take all variables and whatnot of something into consideration before coming to a conclusion. Even then, it's possible you may be wrong, even if nothing in those assumptions or observations conflict themselves.

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Anyway, I apologize if I messed up whilst writing this. I'm kind of tired and stuff, and haven't quite managed to wake up today.

-Ngakunui