Light and Dark Everyone is so ready to tell you that if it is a matter of light versus darkness, light is the good and darkness the evil. But why is this differentiation so widespread? You may say that the dark is sinister. Hell, that's another one, sinister. You think of it as a threatening or evil thing, so if I asked you what the exact opposite of sinister is, what would you tell me? The answer you should really give is dexterous. The words sinister and dexterous come from root words meaning left and right respectively, originally in reference to handedness. Sinister only began to be used as evil because of a bizarre superstition that left hande