RE: What is GOOD?
February 25, 2013 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2013 at 11:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The trouble with that even, is that it still allows wiggle room and contradictory definitions. There are cultures who see no point where courage becomes foolhardiness. So between those two people (the one who sees foolhardiness and the one that does not), there would be a disagreement. Every one of those explanations leverages a value judgement of what is good or bad even in their explanation.
While a lack of generosity is stinginess, -making this lack bad - because stinginess is bad?
its excess can also be harmful both to self (if you make yourself and your family poor) or to others (if your support enables others to continue destructive habits).-making this excess bad, because making ones-self poor or supporting another or their destructive habits is bad?
I suppose that we just call the middle ground good, because it's good not too be those things that are bad because things are bad?
(iow, the explanations given can easily be summarized as "it's bad -because it's bad, and when it's good- it's because it's not bad.")
While a lack of generosity is stinginess, -making this lack bad - because stinginess is bad?
its excess can also be harmful both to self (if you make yourself and your family poor) or to others (if your support enables others to continue destructive habits).-making this excess bad, because making ones-self poor or supporting another or their destructive habits is bad?
I suppose that we just call the middle ground good, because it's good not too be those things that are bad because things are bad?
(iow, the explanations given can easily be summarized as "it's bad -because it's bad, and when it's good- it's because it's not bad.")
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