Do you consider yourself a 'good' person?

[butch33611]

Originally Posted by Nikitta

Hum a good question. I'm a good person to people i care about. People that treat me bad or are blanketyblanks no I'm not. Good question Zeeva. I feel you are a good person. /hugs
And BTW, as to what Butch wrote; I remeber Richard Prior saying he was going to the prisons to get down with his black brothers! After he came away, he said THANK GOD THERE ARE PRISONS!!! We can talk about if we are good people or not so good people. People like Butch sees the real underbelly of humanity. i say kudos to him that he can be honest and back away from it and talk about it.

Truly bad people do truly bad things to other people with absolutly 0 remorse for their actions.

That in my opinion is the definition of a bad person.

[butch33611]

Originally Posted by Zeeva

Very interesting. But don't you think your view of 'bad' is a bit skewed because of where you work??? The average person isn't nearly as close to the type of people you deal with right? The average person can still be a 'bad' person but not to the level of what you see...

I guess that depends on your scale of what bad is. If a clerk gives you a dollar too much change back and you keep it. Does that make you a bad person. If it does, what do you consider the person in my example to be?

Im sure everyone here has done something their not proud of but that doesnt make them a bad person because they probably have a certian amount of remorse for what they did.

Doing bad things over and over again with 0 remorse. Yes, you can consider yourself a bad person.

[Zeeva]

Hmm...semantics I guess? Thanks for your insight. Still thinking about what you see and what you go through. Must be tough work...

Be safe c:

Originally Posted by butch33611

I guess that depends on your scale of what bad is. If a clerk gives you a dollar too much change back and you keep it. Does that make you a bad person. If it does, what do you consider the person in my example to be?

Im sure everyone here has done something their not proud of but that doesnt make them a bad person because they probably have a certian amount of remorse for what they did.

Doing bad things over and over again with 0 remorse. Yes, you can consider yourself a bad person.

[Lilie]

Originally Posted by elsie

My understanding of good is absence of bad. Therefore my answer is, Nope, not this side of Heaven. Though I have "good" intentions, I fail at being "good". Bad is always hanging around, sometimes out front, sometimes in the background, but always present.

I am a work in progress. Forgiven. I know where I'm going when I leave here, and then it'll all be "good". And all my "bad" will be gone forever.

(I like Peter's post)

Yes! What Elsie said.