[Oh, this is actually...kind of relevant to her life right now in more ways than one so for some reason she feels really compelled to answer this, if only for her own frame of reference. But the more she thinks about the right way to answer this, mulling it over in her head, she can't help but keep backpedaling and trying to find the best way to word her thoughts. Soon enough, she realizes it's probably better to just write it down...]
So I think before I answer this I should probably say that I think good and bad are kind of subjective. I feel like everyone has their own sense of what's "good" and what's "bad" and you're gonna have to kind of make that definition for yourself if you wanna form your own answer but I feel like you know that already from how you asked your question?? It's kind of hard. There are people I know who are good people in my eyes but think of themselves as bad for one reason or another, and then there are people who are the absolute lowest of the low but I'm sure if you were to ask them they would insist they were nothing short of the perfect gentleman but now I'm rambling a little. This whole thing's gonna be a bit of a mess of words so hopefully you can get what I'm trying to say
But in the long run it's really complex and I don't think it's something that you can define by someone's actions. I mean, even the nicest people do things that are bad sometimes, sometimes they don't have a choice? Sometimes they do have a choice but the choices look all muddy because they're afraid or under duress, or maybe it's become habitual or something?? Or maybe the person doing the bad thing is ignorant of just how bad it is until it happens? I mean, if someone like that does something bad you can't call them a bad person, there was no intent there, it wasn't, like, a deliberate effort to do bad for the sake of oneself. Sometimes even those don't necessarily make you a bad person either because your intention is for the greater good
I think a bad person is probably someone who's out for nothing but their own power and gain, someone who uses other people to get what they want for no purpose other than for themselves. A bad person will do whatever it takes to get what they want and not care who they have to manipulate and take advantage of to achieve that, not caring about the consequences and not caring about the relationships they have with others. A bad person uses people as a stepping stone to reach their own ideals and goals without consideration of the people around them and only empathizes with others for themselves, they have no hesitation hurting or exploiting someone else if it means furthering their own ambitions
I think in contrast a good person is someone with positive intentions, someone who wants to do what they consider to be good for goodness's sake, someone who acknowledges their own shortcomings and wants to learn from them. A good person isn't always perfect but they care about people who have a presence in their lives, especially the people they don't necessarily need to be good to. Good people are honest and kind and open-minded...and they don't live their lives at other people's expense, but instead they want to better themselves and their relationships with the people they care about, and at the very least attempt to understand the people they don't
That's what I think anyway you can feel free to correct me on anything you think I'm wrong about but that's just like my opinion man
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Date: 2015-07-17 11:07 pm (UTC)So I think before I answer this I should probably say that I think good and bad are kind of subjective. I feel like everyone has their own sense of what's "good" and what's "bad" and you're gonna have to kind of make that definition for yourself if you wanna form your own answer but I feel like you know that already from how you asked your question?? It's kind of hard. There are people I know who are good people in my eyes but think of themselves as bad for one reason or another, and then there are people who are the absolute lowest of the low but I'm sure if you were to ask them they would insist they were nothing short of the perfect gentleman but now I'm rambling a little. This whole thing's gonna be a bit of a mess of words so hopefully you can get what I'm trying to say
But in the long run it's really complex and I don't think it's something that you can define by someone's actions. I mean, even the nicest people do things that are bad sometimes, sometimes they don't have a choice? Sometimes they do have a choice but the choices look all muddy because they're afraid or under duress, or maybe it's become habitual or something?? Or maybe the person doing the bad thing is ignorant of just how bad it is until it happens? I mean, if someone like that does something bad you can't call them a bad person, there was no intent there, it wasn't, like, a deliberate effort to do bad for the sake of oneself. Sometimes even those don't necessarily make you a bad person either because your intention is for the greater good
I think a bad person is probably someone who's out for nothing but their own power and gain, someone who uses other people to get what they want for no purpose other than for themselves. A bad person will do whatever it takes to get what they want and not care who they have to manipulate and take advantage of to achieve that, not caring about the consequences and not caring about the relationships they have with others. A bad person uses people as a stepping stone to reach their own ideals and goals without consideration of the people around them and only empathizes with others for themselves, they have no hesitation hurting or exploiting someone else if it means furthering their own ambitions
I think in contrast a good person is someone with positive intentions, someone who wants to do what they consider to be good for goodness's sake, someone who acknowledges their own shortcomings and wants to learn from them. A good person isn't always perfect but they care about people who have a presence in their lives, especially the people they don't necessarily need to be good to. Good people are honest and kind and open-minded...and they don't live their lives at other people's expense, but instead they want to better themselves and their relationships with the people they care about, and at the very least attempt to understand the people they don't
That's what I think anyway you can feel free to correct me on anything you think I'm wrong about but that's just like my opinion man