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[C9316]

Neofelis Nebulosa wrote...

C9316 wrote...

God, this is just like my Philosophy class last semester. ^^

Such low-profile discussions must have been boring.

Yeah well my classmates weren't the deepest people you'd ever meet, but stocism and Nietzsche's anti-philosophy were pretty interesting. ^^

Modifié par C9316, 11 avril 2013 - 11:22 .

[IllusiveManJr]

No

[Dave of Canada]

Naughty Bear wrote...

Dave of Canada wrote...

Nope, I've seen and done some ****. I'm not an inherent bad person but I've done things which would make the average person scream for my blood.

Stole someone's dinner money?

I wish.

I'm told to kill myself because of my decisions in games, I'd love to hear what those people would think of me if they heard what I've done in real life.

[Jarl Johnnie Walker]

No.
The confines of my mind fester in darkness. Most humans believe evil beings are ones that like to see others suffer. Although that maybe true, but there are different levels of good and evil. Some may have 70% good and 30% evil.

People also change. As life goes on we usually slowly find ourselves. The events you go through, the people you've met. All effects how your mind and personality forms.

The world can be cruel at times and humans do what they need to survive. Even if it very well may lead to acts of evil.
Beings that enjoy seeing others suffer are not really that evil to me. They're just insane or think it makes them feel powerful. Humans who become mass murders or physically torture others do it for some whatever twisted reason. Thus they actually care about doing it. Maybe to worship some higher power.

I, on the other hand, simply do not care. Vast majority of the human race is nothing to me, but mere fleas. I rarely concern myself with their diminutive problems. I am apathetic and silent. Go about your life and I won't even look at you. Stand in my way and I will eliminate you with no remorse. Because I simply just do not care.

[Interloper]

I think I'm an individual who recognises the true roots of humanity, it's in our power to inflict violence and innovate that has seen us survive as a species. Every man seeks power, the ability to control others, preserve himself and stay alive long enough to reproduce. I think I'm not a good person, but i don't try to be excessively bad neither. I've done some things in my life I'm not proud of, but if I've got enough of something to keep me content, and I can afford to aid another person without severe impediment to myself, i'll see what I can do.

[ParkBom]

I definitely try to be. I'm totally willing to put a shopping cart away for an older man, give up my seat on the bus for a woman with a child, and buy my friends things that they need when they just don't have the money that day. I know this because I've actually done this stuff, among other things. I take pride in doing good deeds.

[spirosz]

I tend to go out of my way to help others, but that won't define me as "good", I've just always felt the need (don't know why exactly) to go out of my way. I saved a dog a few years ago, that got off it's leash and ran across the a very busy and hectic street, but I didn't did to "feel better" about myself, I just saw it and reacted and I feel that can be a problem (again, it depends on the individual), but just going off my personal experiences and what has shaped me - reaction. Some people don't feel the need to and some simply don't know how and some just do it, neither are more of a better person than the other, as I can't judge someone just from one moment in their life, if you understand what I'm trying to express, haha.

[Urk]

When asked which commandment is the greatest Jesus did not name one. He said simply to love your neighbor as you love yourself and the rest of the commandments will follow naturally. That is one seriously tough litmus test to pass.

Am I good?

I try to be.

I often fail.

Modifié par Urk, 12 avril 2013 - 01:46 .

[mickey111]

Erik Lehnsherr wrote...

Something can be good overrall?
Because society says so?
What if Society said killing was good? Would it be?
 

If sdociety said that it'd just be normal. Things like that happened to the jewish people in the 1930s believe it or not.

I thought I made it clear enough in my OP that good is relative to the person with that example of emphasising with distress over losing a dog that a moral debate would have been averted.

Good is relative mainly to society and empathy. If society didn't love dogs and I never had one, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have even noticed the dogs to begin with. But since this is BSN, I'd expect most of you to be American/english white people with white people values and white people problems. Don't ask me why.

Modifié par mickey111, 12 avril 2013 - 01:50 .

[Jarl Johnnie Walker]

There is no right or wrong, it's thinking that that makes it so. Humans minds are too complex to realize that. We are taught at a young age what right and wrong is. Good and evil. Thus we put up that boundary.
I suppose that's what makes humans human, but it is acceptable to have a different perspective at times.

[DarkDragon777]

Unlike the cliche response of "no" you get from most people, when I say no I'm actually serious.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Urk wrote...

When asked which commandment is the greatest Jesus did not name one. He said simply to love your neighbor as you love yourself and the rest of the commandments will follow naturally. That is one seriously tough litmus test to pass.

Am I good?

I try to be.

I often fail.

You Tried Your Best and You Failed Miserably. The Lesson Is, Never Try! lulz
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Well, on philosophy ... I choose sheer optimism and rationalism of Gottfried Leibniz over the anti-philosophy (BS) of Nietzche any day of the week.

[Ghost Lightning]

*Reads thread title*

[soultaker65]

I'm a better person than was a few years ago, but I'm still kind of a jerk.

[Fishy]

Not all the time. Someday I could care less if the world burned.

[Seagloom]

Not by my personal standards, no.

[breakdown71289]

Oh definitely.....that's not to say that there haven't been times when i could've done the right thing by helping a beggar out or giving a stranger a hand with something, but i usually strive everyday to be the absolute best "good person" that i can be. I think everybody should at least give themselves a chance to look from deep within themselves and unlock their true potential by whatever means they can.....it's just one of the many ways on the road to being a "good person" in my book.

[Blarg]

People have told me that at my core I'm generally a nice person who'll do what's right. And maybe that shows in the way I play games, since my canon playthroughs are always paragon/light side/whatever you want to call it.

But I don't necessarily believe them, since on the outside I'm usually a cynical, sadistic bosh'tet.