Personally, I've never bought into the premise that good cannot exist without evil. I understand why other people think in those terms, but I don't agree with it. I don't agree that light cannot exist without darkness. Light is there. It exists. Darkness is merely a lack of the presence of...
Yeah, but once you go over, you are not given choices on what to do with your life. You are ordered about and probably killed.
But the people who chose to go over to tDO were making evil choices *before* the Bore was opened. Semi was just an example.
However, from the philosophical side, it...
Actually, it is established that people did evil *before* the Bore and knowledge of the Dark One. Semi tortured people for years before. They had criminals, though far fewer apparently. So the Dark One's continued existence is unnecessary for people to be able to know darkness.
That said, I...