Why be good?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I would argue that such a spectacle would be riotously funny and that I'd point and laugh at any fool engaged in such theatrics.

I have witnessed it and I personally found it to be kind of terrifying. 

I was scared the first time I saw an epileptic fit ... but that was because I knew the victim couldn't control themselves. A dog-and-pony show like glossolalia, being used to entrance the gullible, would arouse my mirth.

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Quick post before I head to work...more later.

Can we discern any consensus of opinion from the posts thus far? Folks have offered many different reasons for "why" we are good including:

It makes me feel good
It makes me feel bad (when I do bad)
Convention
Evolution

You forgot to mention empathy.

This is an example of the dishonesty that earns you the scorn and contempt you're complaining about.

It seems to me that these are examples of Darwinism at work...and evidence that evolution's demand that only the strong survive is still in full effect.

Evolution doesn't demand that only the strong survive. It demonstrates that the fittest survive.

Once again, you are deliberately mischaracterizing something even after you've been corrected.

Once more, an example of your dishonesty.

Is it any wonder you're not getting the respect you clearly desire?