The books ARE more about balance than good versus evil. The ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai is a Ying-Yang symbol. The books show how only cooperation is the key to fighting the last Battle. When one side is out of Balance we get the decline of civilization as seen during the 3rd age.
During the last battle Rand was shown what would happen if he "defeated" the dark one and it was terrifying. The only thing he could do was seal him away again.
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That's not at all what I said.
I didn't say that there needs to be an evil deed for every good deed. I said that there needs to be the possibility of doing an evil deed so that people can choose to do a good deed instead.
It doesn't mean there always needs to be people doing evil. Every single human on the planet could still potentially choose to only do good. But it would be a choice, because they had the option to go the other way, and they didn't.
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