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Re: Good/Bad/Neutral (Was: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:41:47 GMT
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Richard Franks wrote in message ...
> :) This is another either-or trap. I don't believe that people are • inherently
> good, neither do I believe that people are inherently bad. Rather, I • believe
> that peoples actions and thoughts are moulded by the environmental and • social
> structures that they find themselves in.
One problem is that those who believe in the inherent goodness of people
sometimes shortcut things. What we really believe is that everyone has the
inherent capacity to be good. You're right, environment and society will
mold people.
> Eg. In Libertopia, most people may act in 'good' ways because the system is • set
> up to encourage that behaviour - responsibility is rewarded, • irresponsibility
> is punished.
That's part of the idea. If you don't pay a poor person more because they
have more kids, maybe they won't have more kids. If you hold corporations
and their officers responsible for the damage they do, probably they'll not
cause the damage in the first place. And if so, then you don't need all
sorts of laws controlling how they do things, which can just be weaseled
around.
> Or are you proposing that you either are good or bad, and have I just • played
> too much AD&D that I assert that we are born neutral?
While we may be born neutral (in that as we grow up, we can become either
good or bad), I think we are born on the good side of the fence. AD&D also
way oversimplifies things, and I think that is part of the problem. I think
a lot of people decide that on average people are bad, because obviously
they aren't perfectly good, so they must be bad. That's a bad trap to fall
into.
Frank
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