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Good person/bad person
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RE: Good person/bad person
(October 9, 2017 at 8:39 pm)paulpablo Wrote: If it was judgment like this has been a computer game and I'm adding up my score so far, and it's based on suffering/pleasure or well being I've given to others,  I've done pretty good.  I never murdered or raped anyone and I'm really not a cruel person, not very cruel to animals except I do eat meat.  I can be pretty kind and thoughtful.

But I don't think it takes a mentally ill person to do very bad things.  I've been listening to a lot of podcasts recently that are sort of about this subject, more specifically dealing with the importance of knowing how potentially evil you can be.
It's also about moral superiority doesn't come from avoiding doing things you couldn't do anyway.  Just a few examples off the top of my head, I couldn't say Tiger Woods is a horrible womanizer, I'm better than him.  I'm not tempted by anywhere near the number of women he is, just because I don't womanize possibly to the extent he did, it doesn't mean much.
I couldn't say I'm better than a slaver who took slaves as a way to make a living a thousand or so years ago.  I've never had the opportunity to take a slave, I don't deal with any stress I imagine ancient people had to live with, I've never come close to having to make the moral decision to take a slave or not.

There are somethings I could really never imagine doing no matter how hard I try, I suppose it's just not in my genetics.  A lot of things like rape, murder, cruelty are more easy for me to imagine, especially as a teenager when I feel like I was less morally stable and when hormones run wild.  If I'd been put into a situation like a 3rd world country war zone instead of just a pretty bad area in the north west of England in my teenage years I could have been capable of a lot of evil.

What podcasts? Sounds interesting.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." 

-walsh
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Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 6:51 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Paraselene - October 9, 2017 at 6:54 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 7:00 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Paraselene - October 9, 2017 at 7:10 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2017 at 6:57 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Rev. Rye - October 9, 2017 at 9:33 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 9:46 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Rev. Rye - October 9, 2017 at 10:03 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2017 at 10:12 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by vorlon13 - October 9, 2017 at 7:00 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by chimp3 - October 9, 2017 at 7:02 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Losty - October 9, 2017 at 7:04 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 7:08 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2017 at 7:12 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Losty - October 9, 2017 at 7:32 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 7:40 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2017 at 7:45 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Whateverist - October 9, 2017 at 9:49 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2017 at 7:07 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by ignoramus - October 9, 2017 at 7:08 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 7:16 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by ignoramus - October 9, 2017 at 7:22 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Kernel Sohcahtoa - October 9, 2017 at 7:08 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 7:18 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Anomalocaris - October 9, 2017 at 9:07 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by vorlon13 - October 9, 2017 at 7:08 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by ignoramus - October 9, 2017 at 7:17 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2017 at 7:19 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 7:26 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by The Valkyrie - October 9, 2017 at 8:03 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Fireball - October 9, 2017 at 8:31 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by vorlon13 - October 9, 2017 at 9:22 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Minimalist - October 9, 2017 at 8:07 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Astreja - October 9, 2017 at 8:24 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 9, 2017 at 9:26 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by KevinM1 - October 9, 2017 at 8:38 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by paulpablo - October 9, 2017 at 8:39 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 9, 2017 at 10:58 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by paulpablo - October 10, 2017 at 7:54 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 10, 2017 at 7:58 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Edwardo Piet - October 10, 2017 at 8:32 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by ErGingerbreadMandude - October 9, 2017 at 8:55 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by energizer bunny - October 9, 2017 at 9:19 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Seraphina - October 9, 2017 at 9:24 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Fireball - October 9, 2017 at 10:19 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by ErGingerbreadMandude - October 9, 2017 at 11:23 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Jackalope - October 10, 2017 at 1:55 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by ignoramus - October 10, 2017 at 3:18 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 10, 2017 at 5:41 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Jackalope - October 10, 2017 at 10:26 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 10, 2017 at 11:16 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Whateverist - October 10, 2017 at 1:37 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by J a c k - October 10, 2017 at 2:24 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 10, 2017 at 5:48 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Jackie - October 10, 2017 at 7:38 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Joods - October 10, 2017 at 7:46 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Whateverist - October 10, 2017 at 9:11 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by vorlon13 - October 10, 2017 at 9:20 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by MysticKnight - October 10, 2017 at 9:14 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Jackie - October 10, 2017 at 9:31 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by MysticKnight - October 10, 2017 at 9:20 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Homeless Nutter - October 10, 2017 at 9:58 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 10, 2017 at 1:27 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Whateverist - October 10, 2017 at 9:28 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Bob Kelso - October 10, 2017 at 9:39 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Jackie - October 10, 2017 at 9:40 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by drfuzzy - October 10, 2017 at 9:53 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by downbeatplumb - October 10, 2017 at 10:33 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Catholic_Lady - October 10, 2017 at 12:31 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by mlmooney89 - October 10, 2017 at 12:34 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Divinity - October 10, 2017 at 12:51 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Shell B - October 10, 2017 at 1:43 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by brewer - October 10, 2017 at 2:45 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by ignoramus - October 11, 2017 at 4:51 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Ivan Denisovich - October 11, 2017 at 3:20 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by MysticKnight - October 22, 2017 at 2:24 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by Minimalist - October 22, 2017 at 3:33 pm
RE: Good person/bad person - by ignoramus - October 23, 2017 at 6:40 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by LastPoet - October 23, 2017 at 7:02 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by LastPoet - October 23, 2017 at 7:05 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Mr.Obvious - October 23, 2017 at 7:18 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by Sal - October 23, 2017 at 8:40 am
RE: Good person/bad person - by The Industrial Atheist - October 23, 2017 at 9:18 am

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