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If "good" people exist then surely "bad" people must exist.
Yet how often do you come across someone who consider themselves a "bad" person. When was the last time you met a protestant who said "yes I am a terrible person and for this I am going to hell" (catholics are a different matter).
But somehow you do find people who consider themselves "good" people. And given their own ethical/moral boundaries they justify their "goodness"-personal morality is often a creation of the individual in an attempt to reconcile their past "sins" with their self image of themselves as being "good".
Wouldn't it be refreshing to see someone ordinary, no killer or pet torturer, say "Yes, I am bad, based on all of my personal beliefs as well as seen by Society I am a bad person."
But would it not also be somewhat sad, like that person is branded and now forever has the perception of themselves that they can never be a "good" person. Unless of course they make short cuts through their personal morality tha would allow this. But that in essence could be seen as someone once again trying to create a morality to suit their life so that they could be "good" again. I guess if the moral base were created by an outside source and had some kind of quantitative quality to it so that they could point to some little chart and say "ok, you're good now."
Oh well.
It's and interest thought.
Yet how often do you come across someone who consider themselves a "bad" person. When was the last time you met a protestant who said "yes I am a terrible person and for this I am going to hell" (catholics are a different matter).
But somehow you do find people who consider themselves "good" people. And given their own ethical/moral boundaries they justify their "goodness"-personal morality is often a creation of the individual in an attempt to reconcile their past "sins" with their self image of themselves as being "good".
Wouldn't it be refreshing to see someone ordinary, no killer or pet torturer, say "Yes, I am bad, based on all of my personal beliefs as well as seen by Society I am a bad person."
But would it not also be somewhat sad, like that person is branded and now forever has the perception of themselves that they can never be a "good" person. Unless of course they make short cuts through their personal morality tha would allow this. But that in essence could be seen as someone once again trying to create a morality to suit their life so that they could be "good" again. I guess if the moral base were created by an outside source and had some kind of quantitative quality to it so that they could point to some little chart and say "ok, you're good now."
Oh well.
It's and interest thought.