• portifornia@piefed.social
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      2 months 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?

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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?

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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      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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    Like must people I have kneejerk opinions and reactions, though I analyze them before I let them loose. I ask myself “what would a good person do?” and then I do that.

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    Not even by my own standards, which is not much. Do I try? Sometimes.

    I try to be good whenever I can remember or if the opportunity is presented to me without much cost. Being good has a cost in terms of effort and discipline, and yes, I fail at that. For example: I may look the other way whenever someone’s suffering, but when I can, I try to do what I can.

    And this is why I hate it when people say I am a good person. I know I am not, that I can do so much more. I don’t even think I’m worth the resources I consume.

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    I think I put more good into the world than bad. Whether I put in more good than I’ve consumed, I wonder about that a lot. I’ve been very fortunate in life.