• Semester3383@lemmy.world
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    29 minutes ago

    Not really. Most of the things that I do are very neutral, and there are a few things that I do that are pretty awful, although of limited scope in harms. I’m mostly nice to people, I try to help where I can, but these aren’t really exemplary things, these are just part of living in a society.

  • TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    At one point in my life. Good people make good decisions every day to stay good. We don’t have the luxury of goodness in America anymore. Not going to pretend like this horrible society isn’t turning me into a fucking monster just like everyone else.

  • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    I generally try to do more good than bad, and I try not to hurt anyone. But good people probably don’t hope that the US president and most of the billionaires stop breathing…

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    My intentions are to promote human flourishing, and I try to follow my intentions. If I was talking about someone else, I would unequivocally qualify that as being a good person. So by transitive purposes I just have to qualify myself as one.

  • spacegoat@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I’ve stopped caring. The worst people in my country decide everything for the rest of us. At this point I don’t care about being good, I just want to exert my will and trod them into the dirt at every opportunity

  • Awooooooga@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Yes. I’m not perfect but I try to do positive things and minimize the harm/impact of my life on the world around me.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Eh, I try. I think I succeed more often than not, but most bad people think they’re good, right? I try to calibrate against the broader society as a whole, but it often seems like society isn’t really aligned with goodness anyway. So here I am, trying to suss out the good parts of society and align with that, and trying to suss out the bad parts and follow my own moral compass there. But again, bad people probably generally think they’re good, so it’s a bit of a conundrum innit?

    Minimize harm to others, and try to help as much as you can. Except sometimes harming bad people somewhat is good, and sometimes help is counterproductive.

    I’m confident that I am a person. I try to emulate what good is like. Life is hard.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I feel like I’m a good dad. I’m on my own. His mom took off without warning and ruined her relationship with him. I have been his only safety for a decade. She’s around, but doesn’t give a shit about anything that matters to him.

    Everything else, I try to be a decent person. I don’t take what isn’t mine and try to be whatever my mouth says. I don’t really think there is much more to being “good”.