day no. 17,398: forgeries confirm the official

"All forgeries draw their significance from a signature." — G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity (1920)

Without the authentic, the fraudulent ceases. Forgeries presuppose an original and counterfeit preys upon the codified. 

You can have goodness without sin, God for example, but you cannot have sin without goodness. Sin is derivative. Holiness is substantive. Sin is contingent on good. Without a standard of goodness, there is no such thing as evil. Without purity there is no such thing as perversion. Without beauty there is no such thing as ugly. Without truth there is no such thing as lies. But because there is one, true, pure, holy, good and beautiful God, there is a way to differentiate, with confidence, what is good, true, and beautiful, and more to my point here, what is not.