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by jd55513 » Tue Jan 26, 2021 7:11 pm
I think frieza has gone through interesting character development since he was first introduced. When we first saw him. He was self absorbed, and thought he was above all else. After his defeat at the hands of Super Saiyan Son Goku. Something changed. Although he was vile and filled with selfish thoughts of singular revenge. He decided to seriously train, a first for him! Then when he was defeated by Trunks and killed. He began to mediate and do image training while in Hell. After losing again to Son Goku. He continued his training, and during the events of the Tournament of Power, he decided to help Goku at times, replaying his debt. Then during the events of Broly. He no longer wished for Immortality, he is interested in training and understands that it is a pointless and selfish wish.
Son Goku has changed him for the better. He is now more, a martial artist and interested in his own development and spiritual enlightenment.
I don't think he should die, but it would be interested to see him handed defeat by another race of beings, other than Saiyans.
I'm curious to see what kind of training he has done, and what his plans may be after meeting Granola.
To put it simply, Son Goku has a quirk for bringing out the best in people regardless of their nature, good or bad. Goku is like a Bodhisattva that use universal compassion to help others reach enlightenment (in the sense of Eastern Philosophy and Martial Arts).
Because again, Dragon Ball is story about Son Goku and his spiritual enlightenment.
Frieza is still a dark and scheming guy, however you also might want to consider the notions of evil, in Buddhism.
It's a phenomenalogical effect caused by self aware entities. It manifest from dukkha or suffering
In regards to Metaphysics and Ethics, it is night and day on concepts of Gods and Evil.
There is no ultimate good or evil in Eastern philosophy. There is only relative good and evil. "All undertakings are beset with imperfections, as fire with smoke" (Gita 18.48).
In Daoism, you have the Cosmic Yin and Yang. Which is Dialectical monism, also known as dualistic monism. This is not to be confused with just monism(the idea that reality is built on things of a material substance, like atomism). This is a special case of ontology (study of being) where the forces represent themselves, as perceptions in the realm of the minds, not substantive nature. It's also merely an illusion like Buddhism.
In Daoism, they practice "wu wei" and forms of partaking in Dao(or Tao) there is human dao, natural dao and great dao.
Evil in the East is not a "substance" in a monist point of view. It does not have matter associated with it.
However, I remember in Shintoism, there is a struggle and balancing of kegare ("pollution" or "impurity"), while ensuring harae ("purity").
In the West, from a theological point of view, St. Augustine viewed evil as a "privation of good" he didn't believe Evil was created since that would deconstruct the presumption that a God was perfect in the sense of omnipotent, all good, and omniscient.
Also in the West, people tend to believe in a concept in Theodicy called the "vale of soul making". This would be the explaination for the problem of evil. That is, the existence of evil as a phenomenological effect, that motivates and breeds self cultivation of behavior and harmonious virtues in mortals.
The reason I added the stuff about evil and Godhood, is that people always struggle with coming to terms of why don't Whis or the Kaioshins or the other Gods, actually intervene. This is a struggle that parallels actual history in theology and is across cultures.
