(December 11, 2012 at 7:55 am)CliveStaples Wrote:(December 11, 2012 at 7:48 am)Gooders1002 Wrote: Well being kind and helpful, try and cause more overall good than harm. Helping your fellow man and animals and not being (for lack of better description) cunt. Basically be a positive outcome than a negative one.
How do you know that being kind and helpful is "good"? Can you cite a scientific experiment whose outcome demonstrated that being kind and helpful is "good"?
I am talking about after all, being Kind and given somebody money to buy drugs is of course a bad thing, it all about being relive.
When I say Good: It means helping people improve their life in some way (even if it's only temporary). Example: feeding the homeless or cheering somebody up/
When it talks about being bad: It means you're having a negative effect on somebody's life in some way (even if it's only temporary). Example: Stealing something or hurting somebody because you can.
Quote: Why should you prefer "positive" outcomes to "negative" ones?Do you seriously want me to answer that? Would you like a negative outcome happen to you?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
