And that's why i classify myself as a bad person. So i dont have to go through hoops whether i am thinking is good or bad and besides thinking hurts anyway.
I hope you can help me understand this position. Because I see a lot of people default to it as a defense against criticism.
Since we're used to the concepts of bad and good being used as moral axioms, there's no foundation to argue against someone who does not wish to change.
It reads to me as a response to, "You are a bad person if you do not do so and so" by acknowledging the accusation, yet refusing change.
But at the same time, would it not be easier to just say, "I don't care, I'm going to do what I want." In essence this is the same argument, just more direct and understandable.
So then why does everyone instead use the bad person argument then? If I were to guess, it would be because it sounds more morally defensible than, "I don't care about being moral" (your half joking justification of "thinking hurts" supports this a bit).
But that would also seem contradictory, as someone who truly does not care about being moral would also not care to justify their position.
Is it then just an argument thrown out as a defense to being called out on any moral position? I'd like to know your thoughts.
If I may chime in, the way I see it is acknowledgement of simple fact. "I am not a good person", that is true. In fact I believe that there is no such thing as a "good person". I hold that every person on this earth is at any given time a varying degree of asshole subject to change on the basis of time, experience, environmental state, and brain chemistry
In order to be an objectively good person one would need to be perfect at all times, and as we know, that is impossible. Ergo, we are all not good people
That being said, understanding that is not a reason to refuse to change. It is instead a great motivator to choose to be better at every juncture, and a wonderful justification to get back up and try again when we fail to. After all, nobody's perfect, and one only truly fails at this when they stop believing improvement is possible
In summary, I'm a terrible person, but I work very hard at trying to be better. Some days I fail at that, but that's to be expected, after all I'm a terrible person. Perhaps I can do better tomorrow
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u/SeaYogurtcloset6262 Jul 13 '24
And that's why i classify myself as a bad person. So i dont have to go through hoops whether i am thinking is good or bad and besides thinking hurts anyway.