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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-12 03:30 pm

[ SECRET POST #2475 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2475 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02. [repeat]


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[Supernatural, Watchmen]


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[a case of exploding mangoes (2008 novel)]


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[Brothers in Arms]


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[Agents of SHIELD ]


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[Transformers: IDW Generation One]


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[Sarah Michelle Gellar]


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[Young Guns 2]




















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dreemyweird: (austere)

Re: Are you really a good person if you do good things for selfish reasons?

[personal profile] dreemyweird 2013-10-12 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
In my books, you're good if sympathy is the main reason you do good things. Other reasons may be whatever.

If you do good things mostly out of your desire to think of yourself as a good person, then I definitely would not classify you as one.

It does not mean that sympathy is the only criterion; if sympathy is there but you do bad things regardless, then you're "bad". Doing good things without sympathy is much better but does not make you a good person.

Like, it's just the difference between your actions (or even your whole life) being good and your personality being good. Being happy about feeling something that humble and selfless people are supposed to feel automatically makes you a person who is neither humble nor selfless. It is not a bad thing, it just is.

IMHO.