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He has a point (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I personally have found it to be the opposite, but most people are trying to survive.

[–] Roidecoeur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Being someone "just trying to survive" doesn't make anyone good, it makes them an animal. And animals are amoral by default, because they lack the capacity to be either moral or immoral

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, being "good" doesn't just happen, it takes an effort to specifically become "good". Your natural state is just that, natural. Neither good nor bad. It happens that bad choices are often the easiest, which tends to mean that people that dont make an effort to be a good person tend to slip into being bad people. Not because they wanted to be bad, but because they didnt make enough of an effort to be good. "Just trying to survive" by its very nature means you are not actively engaging in benefitting others lives, which fundamentally means you are not a good person.

Not everyone who is "just trying to survive" is bad, but by not making an additional effort to be a good person, they are excluding themselves from being so.

Edit: minor addendum, i am a bad person because i no longer believe that my choices have a serious chance at improving the world, and therefore i do not go out of my way to make said choices as i used to.