As per the title. Sometimes I feel like good people are really just sacks of s**t waiting to crack while bad people are just used to seeing life from a bad perspective and can’t unstuck themselves. I don’t know, maybe I just have trust issues and this is how they manifest.
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I’ve kinda felt like that in the past. Or at least people who suffer aren’t so naive. But I’m older now and don’t really wanna put up with all the drama and crap that comes from bad people. Not bad in attitude or life but breaking the law and doing dumb ■■■■ all the time. That’s who I consider kinda bad. People who are into all kinds of stuff and also put other people in danger or trouble.
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I believe that sometimes you have to be a little bit bad to do any good, but sometimes people get carried away with the “bad” part of this equation. Take Winston Churchill. He is credited with saving western civilization from the Nazis, but he took grain from an enclave in India to feed the British in World War 2, and it caused a famine that killed millions of people in that enclave. He got carried away with the “bad” part of the equation. I don’t know all the ins and outs of this course of action, but it looks pretty bad to me.
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Oh bad people are definitely bad. But good people may not always be as good as they appear.
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I agree with @LevelJ1 , it do be like that.
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I don’t like genuinely bad people. But I prefer people who are open about their bad sides.
I distrust some people who are overly good. In an exaggerated and pleasing way. I have experienced it can cover up a bad side…sometimes very bad.
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I didn’t know that. I feel extremely guilty about the hurt I caused others. But killing millions of people is bad. And not a bit. I don’t believe in doing bad for good. Especially not to this extent.
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Everyone has good and bad in them
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No. There are narcissists and then there are people who aren’t narcissists. Anyone who isn’t a narcissist has a capacity for selflessness and good if you ask me, but narcissists are lost causes. My stepdad was one, and there are a few high profile ones out there, but they seem to be a minority of the population thank goodness.
I don’t tie sz/sza to narcissism. I only really think of NPD for that. I feel like however people tie us to sociopathy so I keep my disease to myself.
I’ve thought about this a lot and my opinion is it really comes down to your lense. A wider lense there is no such thing as either… a more limited lense and you run into the relative aspects of it. A few people I’ve read say you can’t even separate one person from other people in many ways . Essence judgments can lead to distortion …
I try to find comfort in believing man is essentially good and only negative experiences can twist him.
But this comfort I seek eludes me. Because there exist many instances of people doing great evil to innocent bystanders, so to speak. I mean, if you’ve got a beef with someone, take it out on them. Why involve others?
Mass education fails in subtle ways, we don’t know how and why, but it does. Maybe we unknowingly perpetuate the bad along with the good. Or worse, maybe mankind cannot survive in the long run without a constant dose of turmoil.
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