Tuesday, 14 October 2008

• What makes someone a "good person"?

  "good person"? defining that can be very complicated and involves lots of moral/ethical debates.

  if you mean good intentions and not actions, the problem is, there needs to be some standard for what cuts it as "good" and what doesn't measure up to "good"

  anew if you ask me, intentions don't amount to anything more than a pile of beans if the actions/behavior is crappy. go ask any alcoholic if they have intended to stop, or smokers that have wanted to quit.

  that points to an interesting problem we humans have--even those with the best intentions cannot always deliver. this weakness is a part of the human condition. do you think that the people who cheat on their spouses set out to do that when they were making the wedding vows? i don't think so, at least not most of them. the people who say "i would never lie to you. i would never hurt you" to their loved ones, do you think each and every person who has said that is able to deliver? no, they can't. thus my point, humans cannot consistently carry out their good intentions. 
  
  obviously, i really prefer people with good intentions over those who have ill intentions, but i'm just saying, we need not kid ourselves about the faultiness that all people carry.

  i am a real pessimistic. i see that there is some good in people which is really there--there are always real heros that will do good unconditionally--but yeah, ultimately, no one is really a good person if you watch them long enough. unless you are talking about turning a blind eye again and again and again, but then, anyone would qualify as a saint then.

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