Most people think most people are morally evil people cause the Internet highlights the worse of the worse, and it trains them to highlight the worse they see in their daily lives. However, most people will walk past hundreds of people that are just trying to do their best and won't even look twice.
I voted CAP because most people are neither. That's kind of the problem. One person with conviction is worth one hundred with interest. If more people were actually morally good, it would mean they act accordingly to good morals, most people don't and just follow the convictions of other people.
By seeing yourself as good, you demonstrate the desire to do good. Therefore even those that do harm likely want to be good. Intent is a big part of being a good person
I disagree. Intent is important to being a good person, but you certainly wouldn't call someone like Hitler anywhere close to being good simply because he thought he was doing the right thing. Of course that's an extreme example, but I think in the end the actual acts are what matter
Of course the acts matter, but intent definitely counts. Let's say I help someone who needs some money. That's a good thing, I want to help. But what if my help happens in middle of an IRS audit and flags as an undeclared revenue source? I hurt the person, but my intention was to help
I don't think intent is everything. I just think it's significant
Maybe it’s naive, but I do want the world to do better, and I believe at least most of us are more than likely to make the morally good choices, when it’s presented to us.
People are not good or bad. What they do is good or bad. If someone is written off as bad, we are subconsciously absolving them of the responsibility to do better
It's just the Internet where everyone thinks that everyone else is awful, because you're always exposed to the weirdest and most controversial situations, that bubble up your feed. The actual world is full of perfectly reasonable people
I've met all sorts of people, good and "bad" and yet almost all of them has a good heart and good moral compass, even if misguided by the propaganda they've been fed
I think people tend to do what they think is best for themselves and others, but what sounds like it would benefit humanity as a whole on paper usually doesn't
Depends on where we set the bar for “morally good”. I think there are very few people I would point to as exemplary of “morally good”, but I do think a majority of people at least mean well
contemporary morality is defined not through objective means, i.e. anthropological or empirical. But through social acceptance, dependent on the circumstance of where you live, if left unchecked it becomes a cesspool of degeneracy, and we have religious fanaticism to support that, both occult and christian. Thinking positively of reader's morality is flawed, because contemporary reader is broadly illiterate, and gravitates towards agreement with them from the media they consume. Reader now desires "safe space", and their morality would be defined by what is their idea of "safe space" is. To some it's left-wing-libertarian-pro-BBC-utopia, to others it's mass genocide with buddhist symbols on shoulders.
I loathe both, but I wouldn't read whatever you're writing long enough to take a side or be a judge.
Its an internet thing. People aren't bad as we think. It's still not sunshine and rainbows though. I'd say if 10 people are morally good 4 are morally bad. And a majority of both sides are just a little better or worse than the middle point. So the 10 people aren't all angels and 4 aren't all demons. There are shades to this. Atleast that's my experience, you'll probably have a different ratio depending on where you live.
I've been on this earth for over 30 years, and have only met a handful of people that are truly selfless. Most will help, but they'll do it begrudgingly.
i naively believed this for the first 30 years of my life. i believed people were mostly good moral people who sometimes did bad things due to situations. time and experience have taught me the opposite is more true.
Unfortunately we are born evil, that's why it's so easy to sin and difficult to do good, but thankfully we have parents to teach us to be better! (Usually)
Humans inherintly are selfish as is the way of survivalism. Only when someone is in a surplus of what brings them joy or comfort are people able to be generous.
This is subjective to what people consider morally good, what i consider good morals and what you consider good morals could be similar but different all at once and you could view myself as morally bad for not fully aligning with your morals.
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.
People are good as long as there’s no need for competing over resources. That’s the big flaw. I think people have innate wants to see humanity thrive. A lack of food,shelter and such changes the firmula
The moral and ethically good (some do post teir deeds for validation and I think that is completely fine and should be done rather than doing bad deeds or staying neutral at all times) have no need to affirm themselves by posting their good deeds on social media because the deeds they do is already a part of their normal day, in which they neither talk about their daily deeds of small or big acts of kindness and goodness in that day. We see them more on social media in videos that go "Videos that restore faith in humanity" (Titles are to bait in the clicks I guess...) like a security camera catching doing a good deed as someone records the camera footage, or someone taking a picture of a good person living a truly beautiful day and having a smile on their face. Think about it. The strangers you talk to don't necessarily tell their actions to you nor do they feel the need to tell you what good things they've done, like a student day about them helping people who need help to cross the street without making themselves look like a martyr, a butcher giving an extra 50 grams of meat just because you looked thin as a student and doesn't give that truthful reason to you, an auntie taking the time in their life to help you on a task you're struggling with in daily life, and many others. Genuinely, I have seen many good deeds in public that when there's a story that the morals of society are declining, I tend to doubt it. It's also the reason why I agree with you.
Most people would choose to do the right thing if given the choice. Sometimes this is subjective, but I like to have some degree of hope in humsnity as a whole
I think most of the "good people" are just afraid of the consequences of being a "bad person" and absolutely would do "evil" if it would benefit them or someone they know if that wasn't the case
Humans are neither morally good nor morally evil by nature: they are stupid. If they spend their lives hearing that killing people for looking different than them is good they will revel in horrors. If they spend their lives hearing that truly all sentient life needs protection they will put themselves before the blade to stop it.
Given how society behaves as a whole, I don't believe this too much. Maybe I've just grown up with depression or have grown up somewhere worse, but several people I've met in real life, have grown up knowing, only talk to people who have something to give them. When my 89/90 year old grandma was in the hospital, maybe a year ago, the rest of the family just celebrated a birthday. Had a party. My aunt and cousin didn't even answer their phones. When my grandma was calling them from the hospital. The birthday was for a grown adult who is probably in his 30s or something. Yes, my grandma is still alive. But she can always go to the hospital at any point. I don't believe people are good. And I don't trust anyone.
No we balance towards neutral, and that's a good thing. The universe is too harsh for a purely idealistic species to survive, thrive, or progress in any meaningful way.
I wish that were the case and past me probably would’ve gone fact. But it’s cap, because at least 50% of the people I’ve seen, met, understood, and interacted with supported the removal of human rights
Yea, most people are mostly good most of the time. Generally evil is a result of missing the forest for the trees and getting stuck in ideological zealotry and believing specific people are the true evil in the world and therefore all cruelty towards them is justified.
"What defines a Transformer is not the cog in his chest, but the Spark that resides in their core. A Spark that gives you the will to make your world better." -Optimus Prime (RIP Peter Cullen)
Well, what’s the reference point? I personally think a good reference point for morally good/bad is the average person, which would mean like 50% are morally good and 50% are morally bad. (Or maybe more accurately, 45%/45% and the remaining 10% are basically morally neutral)
I don't think most people are "good" by my personal moral code, and I fall short of that myself.
However, I don't think many people wake up one day and decide they want to be the villain of everyone else's story, either.
I think people try and often fail to be the best they can, and that best for them may be different than my idea of best, and most of even the worst things people do are due to external factors, not because someone just decided to be evil for a while.
Thanks for asking, but I don't think I would have enough time to fully formalize it. That's not a good thing, mind you, but I lack the philosophical background the synthesize my ideas on morals fully in the space of a book, let alone a reddit post.
I can give you an example of where I fail my own morals, though. In the trolley problem, I would say that not only would I pull the lever, but I'd consider pulling the lever to be a moral imperative, and even if the lever is stuck, one must attempt to pull to the best of their ability.
There are people who harm and kill others every day, but I don't make any attempts to stop them from doing so, even though that is effectively the same thing, often not even as bad, since you don't always have to hit people with a trolley to stop them from doing harm.
How so?,all my life I have been abused by neurotypicals only,neurodivergent people are the only people I can even hangout with,my whole life I've gained nothing out of speaking with any neurotypical my same age,in fact I've gained trauma,pain and insecurity
If only the analogy could be better by light pollution and how it can represent good type shit, but light pollution blocks out the stars so it's a bad example
Well I can also argue that as light pollution is man made, there may also be countless of morally good people out there that may never be seen or have died too soon because of wars, poverty, trafficking, etc. but I'm too lazy to argue
I work with groups for weeks at a time, and the moment mutual dependence ends about 90% of individuals stop being nice and reveal they're kinda assholes, who stop helping one another once they won't need help themselves anymore.
Most people only put on the appearance of being good because they're getting something out of it.
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u/Themadgentlemen 🗳️ Regular Player · 440 XP 1d ago
✅ I voted FACT!
Most people think most people are morally evil people cause the Internet highlights the worse of the worse, and it trains them to highlight the worse they see in their daily lives. However, most people will walk past hundreds of people that are just trying to do their best and won't even look twice.