• portifornia@piefed.social
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      11 days 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?

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      Yes, exactly what I was going to say.

      It’s a continuous process, not an innate quality.

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        Some would say that is what makes someone a good person in the first and place, that they try to be one. Even if how often or seldom they fail to do so is a gradient. Extreme exceptions are exceptions. Personally I doubt it was an effortless burden even for Fred Rogers.

        To answer OP and repeat it again: I try to be.

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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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      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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    I think that’s a relative matter…

    I mean do I think I’ma good person? Not really.

    Do I look around and go “What the fuck is wrong with these sociopaths?” Yes, very much so.

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    I try my best. I lead life with empathy for all people and creatures. We’ve all only got one world after all.

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    Like the sum total of me, including the past? I’m a good person now, but I used to be a pretty shitty person by most metrics. Like, deplorable.

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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.