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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 7:32 pm
(October 9, 2017 at 7:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (October 9, 2017 at 7:04 pm)Losty Wrote: I consider myself a good person. It's not to say I do anything great or that I don't have my faults though. I think most people are good people. Even people who do horrible things are generally good people, who are mentally ill, trying to do what they think is right. I'd say it's very rare to find people who know what they're doing is bad and wrong and choose to do it anyway.
I like that you always answer lol. A lot of people just get so technical...
I try to always answer the question asked. Unless the question is incredibly insulting like that atheists with children thread. Then I usually just say something ridiculous 
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 7:40 pm
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(October 9, 2017 at 7:32 pm)Losty Wrote: (October 9, 2017 at 7:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I like that you always answer lol. A lot of people just get so technical...
I try to always answer the question asked. Unless the question is incredibly insulting like that atheists with children thread. Then I usually just say something ridiculous
I appreciate that. I always try to answer questions too.
Lol, kitan... why don't you think you're good?
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 7:45 pm
(October 9, 2017 at 7:40 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Lol, kitan... why don't you think you're good?
I hope it doesn't have anything to do with me just putting one of his posts in the hall of shame
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 8:03 pm
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 8:07 pm
I'm a prick who loves dogs.
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 8:24 pm
I try for neutrality, but on the whole I see myself as more good than bad: Avoid causing harm, stay on good terms with neighbours, pay my debts, support charities, drive safely, and keep promises (mainly by being very selective about what promises I make).
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 8:31 pm
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(October 9, 2017 at 8:03 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Pendulum.
I swing back and forth.
Yup. A swinger. :nods:
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I'm generally good. I've made it 30 years at my defense job without failing a polygraph, and I'm the worst liar you would ever meet. The needles bend over the posts when I even think about lying. NB- I know people who have committed crimes and can pass a poly; they worked in the same place I did. I can also be a blue steel son of a bitch when required, and I have (and have delivered) the scars to prove it. Hopefully I've mellowed enough that I won't be collecting too many more. I'm too old for that shit.
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 8:38 pm
I’m the best, but you all knew that.
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 8:39 pm
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.
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RE: Good person/bad person
October 9, 2017 at 8:55 pm
I think our actions define who we are and I've done a lot of bad things in the past, I'm probably still doing some bad things even without realizing it. So I definitely consider myself a bad person if good and bad were the only option.
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