Not really
I feel like I do good things just because they make people like me. Idk.
I don’t like hurting other people.
Nowadays that qualifies as good.
The bar is so low I don’t think I have trouble passing as one of the good ones.
I try really hard to not be a bad person.
My friends, family and I believe most of my colleagues think so
My intentions are to promote human flourishing, and I try to follow my intentions. If I was talking about someone else, I would unequivocally qualify that as being a good person. So by transitive purposes I just have to qualify myself as one.
I reject the premise of this question.
I think I’ve met a handful of “good” people in my life. I’m not one of them.
I’ve stopped caring. The worst people in my country decide everything for the rest of us. At this point I don’t care about being good, I just want to exert my will and trod them into the dirt at every opportunity
I try my best. I lead life with empathy for all people and creatures. We’ve all only got one world after all.
Yes. I’m not perfect but I try to do positive things and minimize the harm/impact of my life on the world around me.
I’m definitely not a bad person.
Eh, I try. I think I succeed more often than not, but most bad people think they’re good, right? I try to calibrate against the broader society as a whole, but it often seems like society isn’t really aligned with goodness anyway. So here I am, trying to suss out the good parts of society and align with that, and trying to suss out the bad parts and follow my own moral compass there. But again, bad people probably generally think they’re good, so it’s a bit of a conundrum innit?
Minimize harm to others, and try to help as much as you can. Except sometimes harming bad people somewhat is good, and sometimes help is counterproductive.
I’m confident that I am a person. I try to emulate what good is like. Life is hard.
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I make it easy for someone to argue that I am.
But I’m also difficult and hard to connect with.
I’m fortunate enough that it’s not hard to be good. I’ve rarely, if ever, been forced into situations where I have to cause any kind of hardship to anyone to get my needs met. I try to leverage the privilege I’ve been afforded to act in ways that are more globally conscientious (i.e., I have the time and money to choose ethical alternatives to Amazon, live in a city with public transit, can afford non-meat alternatives and still have a nutritionally complete diet, etc.)
I try to be socially conscientious. I try to limit the problems I cause to others. I take care of people where I can and say hello to my neighbors. I give to charity and sponsor artists. I’ve broken up a street fight and walked a stranger through a scary part of town because she asked me to.
But if I had to make the really hard choice I’m not sure if I could. “I’m not a coward I’ve just never been tested. I’d like to think if I was I would pass.”