Being vs. Believing

[Angrboda]

If their goal is simply believing that they are good, and good is an internal variable, then they can meet that goal by adjusting the internal variable. 

Well, without going over the same ground as my last post about how those variables may be set....does it seem to you, like we are proficient at adjusting those variables?  I don't think that we are, and as such I doubt that a person could feel good, or believe they are good (or know that they are good)...simply by adjusting the internal variable - if that can actually be accomplished in the first place.  Here again...I don't see the problem?  

(emphasis mine)

I don't believe the internal variable can be that independently controlled either, but I was addressing a potential problem if it can. That is that the behaviors which are justified lack a rigid standard such that people don't just 'rationalize their behavior as being good' regardless of the content of that behavior. I guess the question is, "How do we achieve virtue?" if the standard and whether we meet the standard are internally set.

Is there some requirement or reason to impose a category of "truly good" on the universe at large?  I'm satisfied with "better than", myself.

Agreed. But how do we know what "better than" is if we are only listening to our own voice?