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COMMENTS:
Who are the good guys, the bad guys ? It depends on who you ask...
There is a gradual spectrum of different mixes of good and bad, but good guys and bad guys is easier to say.
Voted : It's up to the individual and has very little to do with groups with whom he/she is associated.
Again, it all falls into the realm of personal responsibility, IMO. You make your own choices where to stand, in this world. Sure, there are those who say that the world comes in shades of grey. I try not to believe that, accent on *try*. As long as you hav eprsoanl responsibility and a working brain, you can look at where you stand and choose for yourself where you want to stand and whom you want to stand with.
morality is not subjective. harmis evil. lack of harm is not. reduction of harm is good. end of story.
^I concur with your statement, Neothe. And, Oskar Schindler did "good" at least according to Spielberg, and the people whose lives he helped save; and, HE was also the dreaded "N" word. (NAZI) So, IF you can agree that he (Schindler) was "good" then being a NAZI in 1930's Germany didn't make him "bad"; it is argueable that it was the very fact that he WAS aligned with that party, and was willing to use his priviledge and power for "good", that being associated with them became a tool for becoming a "better" person. That, to me, is an incredibly strange irony. The NAZIs were/are the quintessential "villain," weren't/aren't they? And not just on this site. It's pretty much a popular view anywhere you go.
And, I must concede, Neothe, that Oskar Schindler could easily have claimed that he was a "systemic anomaly" as he related to THAT matrix.
I have no problem with anything you said in the above statement. We're just looking at the question differently.
^ (cont.)I have to give you credit in that, in *my* opinion, you answered the "literal" question as well or better than anyone else. However, a great deal of the impetus of this particular ballot is addressing the attitude of too quickly "labeling" people "good" and "bad". (that was included in the first line of the description, and reflected in a set group of closed choices) "Perhaps" I could have worded it differently to better convey that idea; however, judging from some of the other responses, I think they got the gist.
with morality being such a simpleconcept, you can label people accurately. unfortunately, that makes most people evil. explicit inaction is as guilty as explicit action.
I think people carry good and bad within them - People are more than their views or their politics or their religion. They are their own actions, and their intentions. And they can always change.
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