RE: Being vs. Believing
April 27, 2015 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 1:24 am by henryp.)
(April 26, 2015 at 8:32 pm)Cephus Wrote: I don't buy that people inherently want to be good. We are a social species, we require other people to make our own lives worthwhile and simplify our survival, especially in the modern world. People act to fit into society, not to be "good". There were plenty of Germans who went along with Nazism because it made their lives better by making the socialization process simpler. Good and bad are entirely subjective concepts.
They are entirely subjective concepts. That's the point. That people forge the subjective concepts on the desire to see themselves (which sometimes relies on being perceived by others) as good.
That's a more complicated example, of course, because you have a lot of very strong basic human instincts in play.
It appears this has (or is related to something) with a name. Illusory Superiority. I'm going to go read about that now!
Sounds like Illusory Superiority mildly related to how people can believe they are good without actually being good. Not exactly related to why they want to believe they are good.
