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I have this idea, im not sure if it will work, I like having philosophic convosations. I just want to see if i can guide a philisophic conversation. I want to be totaly un-bias and just see what sort of conclutions people come up with. I studied the socratic method in school, let me see if i have learnt anything.

You dont have to be interlectual to do this just open minded.


First question:
What do you think?

I think that most people are generally good (occassionally you do meet the creepy individual that looks like they have no humanity), but for the most part people are 'good' in the fact they don't want to hurt other people. Although I've been told how naive I am for putting trust into people so I could be wrong.

Good is subjective though. Some people honestly believe that I am 'evil' for being gay. Of course I think that's nonsense but it just drives the point that you really can't get everybody to agree on morals and what's right with the world. Because, there are too many people with too many different opinions. Everybody should adhere to their own rule of morality as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. But again, you have some problems there too. So nothing is perfect or right with this because philosophy is abstract.

There is a buddha quote about being right in your own mind internally and if you are, you just won't be nasty to yourself or others. I forget it but it's a good quote.

So you believe that a good person does't want to hurt hurt other people and that is humanity (or part of humanity). Have you ever wanted to hurt some one?

Have you ever thought about why you are you, and not someone else? and that, even as your thoughts fluury and eb, that everyonne else in the whole place also thinks as complexly as you do, and each may see things one way, and each have the same exsistance as you?

I like politics and aphorisms ^.^

I think for now we could keep to non-political subjects, maybe we could just focus on human awareness humanity its self.

Naturally, nope. However I do want a sense of justice in the world, for wrongs to be righted. If somebody has hurt me or the people I care about, then a fire inside of me goes up to fight them and tell them to back the ******** off.

But I never look at a (presumed) innocent person and think 'I want to hurt/kill you.'

Not all hurt is bad, sometimes you need to hurt to protect. But not in the 'I get a sick pleasure from decapitating puppies' kind of way.

Eh, I don't agree that everybody is innately evil, although we're more instinctual and predictable than we like to think. We use religon to give ourselves meaning and purpose when really we're probably juts animals. I don't think religion threatens you to be good unless you have a weak enough mind to be manipulated like that. I think religion/spirituality can be very positive if you use it for the right reasons.

I think you just choose to be good, for your own reasons and your own morals and it's not really 'goodness' if it's something you can't own up to.

We're pleasantly neutral when we're born...and pretty helpless for the most part. That's how the 'innocent, poor poor humans' started to develop I think. A lot of lifeforms immediately go off on their own as soon as they hatch from the egg. But we spend so many years in adolescence...and some people never truly leave it.

The first thought I have isn't an evil one. It's usually a sexual or selfish one yes, but those aren't 'evil.'