Assessing Goodness
Photo from Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash Sometimes, being good can be so hard. For real. People really test your patience and expect you to just fold your arms and watch. Sometimes, you even find yourself at crossroads, “will doing good be in my best interest or will doing a bad thing just this once suffice?” Welcome to Limitless! I’ve been cogigating on the subject of goodness, an enigma I’ve not fully wrapped my head around yet. So many rhetorical questions have been flying in my head; am I really a good person? Then, there are actual questions such as Are humans inherently good or bad? Can a good person do evil and remain a good person? How do we even assess goodness? Sigh. There’s definitely a lot to unpack here. First, let’s discuss the second question, “Can a good person do evil and remain a good person?” . Sometime ago, I asked the question on my Instagram story. I got quite a number of intelligent answers. One person responded with “no one is go...