The laws of nature are far more restrictive than all the current man-made laws put together. They affect every decision we make, and, thus, demand us to consider its consequences before we act. For example, any rational decision, plan or valuation requires that we take into consideration infinity in time, for every action produces consequences to the infinite future.
The first Great Depression occurred around 1930s, and from that experience, Milton Friedman suggested the Quantity Theory of Money, such that Price x Quantity = Velocity of Circulation Of Money x Money Supply (PQ=VM), can be used to avoid future Great Depressions. The second financial Great Depression could either be going on right now in 2009 or will come later. In any case, the current financial crisis seems to have the financial authorities believing in the Quantity Theory Of Money, which, at least, have rescued us from the initial stage of potentially another Great Depression, through the faithful execution of the suggestion of Milton Friedman by the Chairman of Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke.
The post-science vision, if not a prediction, can be extended even further into life or computer science, where there have only been small crises, such as regional blackouts of electrical power, Year 2000 computer incompatibility, and the partially automated Microsoft Windows, which is growing in complexity and has become an addictive drug for its users. Society and technology are becoming increasingly complex. Uncontrollable complexity will become the greatest danger to society, far outweighing physical and social crises today. The ultimate solution to unlimited complexity is complete automation, to which post-science has contributed the completely automated software. Again, it might take two major global crises to wake society up to the necessity of complete automation, which characterizes life and will raise our temporary partially automated technology to the level of the permanent and completely automated technology for the creation of entities with permanent existence, such as life.
The requirement of permanence through complete automation is a design criteria, not a non-violable law of nature; it can be violated as all the engineers prior to the twenty-first century do. However, the requirement is the correct foundation for life and computer sciences, where the growth of complexity is virtually unlimited.
Good and evil take a lower priority than non-violable laws of nature in social science. In any action, laws of nature must be obeyed. We will be punished through pain and suffering, when we are ignorant of the laws of nature. Punishment is how nature teaches us laws of nature. Thus, ethics, which, Benedict Spinoza proposed, should depend on punishment, not any timely notion of good and evil, should be defined by the non-violable laws of nature rather than by good and evil.
However, the Equation Of Evil is practical. Basically, it says that one uses evil to achieve one's overly ambitious goals when one lacks the ability. Evil exists as a survival mechanism for low-ability creatures to compete against high-ability creatures for survival. It is a survival mechanism, a minimal ambition, for the weak to compete against the strong; it compensates the lack of ability.
If we consider good as the opposite of evil, the equation for good is Good = Ability - Ambition. People with high ability and low ambition generally "have to" spend their time doing good. Throughout history there are people with high ability being defeated by evil people of low ability. Historically greatest ambitions for good were achieved with great ability, often accompanied by some "necessary" evil.
The Equation is useful for judging people. It helps explain the prevalent evil in politics and business, which are characterized by unquenchable ambition for power and money. In particular, it helps to explain religion, which exists mainly to promote good and to eradicate evil. The greatest sin for Buddhism, the earliest of the main traditional religions, is ambition.
Post-science believes that there should be a proper balance for good and evil. When evil becomes excessive, religions are invented to promote good. Idealistic practices of good in socialism or communism, which equalizes ambition, are the main causes of their downfall; they require too much good or ability for support.
To gain a intuitive understanding of why there should be a proper balance, good and evil can be thought, respectively, as credit and debt. At a first glance, credit seems to be better than debt, but debt can provide leverage in investments, tie over emergency needs of cash, even enhance the chances of survival either in business or in life. Too much debt, as too much evil, can be a bad thing. Thus, good is useful in balancing evil, or credit, debt.
The Equation of Evil can be expanded for practical application in terms of the major elements of each of its terms:
Evil (greed, cheating, debt, etc.) = Ambition (ego, desire, happiness, etc.) - Ability (knowledge, health, suffering, wealth, credit, etc.)
where the study of the internal structure of the terms will certainly be controversial and dependent on the culture of the time. The Equation is proposed purely for its relevance to our daily lives.