Lunar Empire Missionaries are fond of stating such things as “Chaos is necessary to creation” or “You cannot have law without unlaw, or light without darkness, hence one must have chaos as well.” or the infamous “just as when you stare into absolute darkness you see nothing, so when you stare into absolute light, you see nothing.”. All these ploys are naked attempts to make Chaos, or bits of it, acceptable. They are wrong.
Chaos is not the same as destruction. Chaos is not necessary to creation. Chaos is not the antithesis to “Law”. Chaos is oblivion.
It is true that we can have no good if we have no evil. You steal the gold. The troll steals the gold back. You and the troll fight. Both or neither of you may be evil. But Chaos wishes to DESTROY all the gold. This is why both you and the troll combine forces to stop Chaos. Chaos is neither evil nor good. It is nothingness, emptiness beyond emptiness. Chaos is oblivion.
Death is necessary to existence. But even in death, there is no oblivion. Your personality may not survive your body’s death, but your bones rest in the soil, your flesh provides food for worms and plants, your spirit recycles into the ether. Your children go on, remembering your memory. The works you did remain behind; the house you built, the poem you wrote, the love you gave, the hate you inflicted. None of it, the good or the bad, perishes with death. But Chaos would destroy this. Not only your soul, and your personality, but your children, and all that you would have left behind. All is gone as if you had never been. All your existence will have been pointless. Chaos is oblivion.