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andros_rex@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 days ago

Do you think you are a good person?

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Do you think you are a good person?

andros_rex@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 days ago
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  • Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Certainly not

  • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    I am a good puppy

  • Hungry111@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    I stopped trying to be a good person, instead I’m trying to be a person I can be proud of. Whether the action prioritizes myself or the others does not matter if it makes me glad. A huge part of goodness is established on prioritizing other living beings which,I believe, forgets the most important one, the self.

  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    Yes, but I am an asshole at the same time

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I am very very good. At being an asshole.

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lol
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      9 days ago

      You can’t be an asshole and a good person at the same time.

      • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        yes you can, i am living proof

  • discocactus@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

    • portifornia@piefed.social
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      9 days ago

      Well…

      You never call, you never write! … You’re the nastiest dirtbag I know in this stinking city! … If you don’t wanna talk to your mother, just avoid me like usual, huh?

      • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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        Oh, please. That doesn’t even sound like him! The President’s an idiot, you don’t sound like an idiot. If you don’t wanna talk to your mother, just avoid me like usual, huh?

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  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Define “good”.

    I’m not Fred Rogers good. I know that much.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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      Fred Rogers is the bar I try and constantly fall short on.

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        9 days ago

        Don’t feel bad about it. He wouldn’t judge you for it, so why should anyone else? Especially yourself?

    • chunes@lemmy.world
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      He still likes you just the way you are.

      • moondoggie@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, but Billy Joel loves you just the way you are

        • urushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moe
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          And Rihanna loves the way you lie

        • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          Now that sax is in my head.

      • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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        I’m not worthy.

    • rabber@lemmy.ca
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      Only you can define that which is why it is a tough question and why religion is bullshit.

    • BigLime@lemmy.ml
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      Bro’s k/d ratio in Vietnam is no joke

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lol
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      Not OP, but I’d say part of the question’s spirit is to define “good” yourself and answer based on that.

  • Stop Forgetting It@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I try to be.

    • Asweet@piefed.ca
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      Yes, exactly what I was going to say.

      It’s a continuous process, not an innate quality.

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        Some would say that is what makes someone a good person in the first and place, that they try to be one. Even if how often or seldom they fail to do so is a gradient. Extreme exceptions are exceptions. Personally I doubt it was an effortless burden even for Fred Rogers.

        To answer OP and repeat it again: I try to be.

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    I don’t like to say “good person” and “bad person” because I feel like it implies that there is some objective scale of goodness that people can be compared to, and I think that is simply not the case. So I would rather think of this question as “Do you have a positive opinion of yourself?”

    No, no I don’t. My opinion of myself is extremely negative.

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      I think there are many–possibly even most–“bad people” who have positive opinions of themselves. Dark triad and all that.

      And then of course plenty of “good people” with self-esteem issues who will always have a bad opinion of themselves.

      There should be at least a degree of objectivity when it comes to determining goodness. The bar might be low, but there is a difference between somebody who generally thinks of others (considerately) and who generally does not.

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      The reason I try to avoid using the phrases “good person” and “bad person” is that it implies that there are people who simply don’t do bad things. “Bad people do bad things, and I’m a good person, so I really don’t need to critically examine my own actions and how they affect others.”

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    I will leave that judgment to whomever eats me.

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      What show had people’s insides be spaghetti? Rick and Morty i am pretty sure. Weird fucking episode. Poignant and absurd.

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    Chaotic good

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    Absolutely not.

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    No. I have many regrets. I try to do good but at the end of the day, I am a coward.

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      It’s better to fail at being good than to succeed at being evil

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        deleted by creator

  • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org
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    I think that’s a relative matter…

    I mean do I think I’ma good person? Not really.

    Do I look around and go “What the fuck is wrong with these sociopaths?” Yes, very much so.

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    • SourDragon@lemmy.world
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      I haven’t seen this meme in a while 😆

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    I don’t like the person I used to be. I’d like to think i’m a descent person now.

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