Why is there something rather than nothing? This paper argues that the question is often framed by a false symmetry. Absolute nothingness is not a state, cause, possibility space, probability distribution, or background; it contains no laws, powers, relations, time, or potentiality. By contrast, deprivation, destruction, falsehood, and death are intelligible only relative to positive realities that can be damaged, falsified, or lost. This paper distinguishes an epistemic asymmetry between construction and criticism from an ontological asymmetry between actualityand privation. The proposed resolution is that nothingness cannot stand as an ontological rival to being or generate being. The live question is instead what kind of actuality is non-derivative- brute actuality, necessary actuality, or an endless structure of dependence. Classical Christian metaphysics offers one coherentcompletion by identifying the non-derivative ground with God and evil with privation, but that identification requires further premises.