[Unfinished] Action Shmaction Dialogue

Questions: Are actions things or relations?

Efficient Cause for Asking: It is said that all things are good insofar as they exist. It is also said that some things are evil by nature. e.g. guns, alcohol, prostitution, etc. Both cannot be true. Perhaps reconciliation comes from differentiating things from relations.

Statement: It would seem they are relations. For instance, murder is not a bad "thing" because murder is the process by which kills another with premeditation by some means. The means are a relation of the two persons.

Action as a Relation, e.g. assault

• man Related to knife (mRk) = his hand grips it, the knife is gripped by him.
• There is furthermore a relation between this relation and another object though:
• (mRk) Related to victim = force of knife cuts victim, victim is cut by force of knife
• where the force of knife is due to his relation to the knife and the cut of the victim is due to this relation, in relation to himself.
  

So it would seem actions are relations. Thus, we do not say "murder is a bad thing," rather "murder is a bad relation." This sounds odd in colloquial speech, being why we say "murder is a bad action." But the use of such speech is part of what sparked this discussion.

Action as a Thing, e.g. thinking
1. It would seem assault is a relation.
2. In thinking of assault I produce an idea of assault.
3. Ideas are things.
4. Assault is a thing.
5. Thinking is an action.
6. My action of thinking was a thing.
7. This thought is a pointer to a relation.
8. What of the thought about the thought that is the pointer? For you are now thinking about the idea as a pointer. This itself is a thought too.
9. This points to a relation.
10. And that thought?
11. Ad infinitum - so it cannot be the case.

Try to start over then:

1. Thoughts are things without physical substance or non-physical portraits of things.

• E.G. numbers or my brother, respectively

2.