what is the criterion of good and bad ?why people are different in recognising the best choice?
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Maybe this will help you.\nIt all depends..\n standings on the shoulders of giants or standing on the toes of midgets ?\nany way standards are most useful \n-they involve hairy topics like crypto protocols\n-lots of people examined them\n-they’ve been popular for a long time\n-they were arrived at by an open process\n\nIn general moral virtues or faults always are a firmed fact in any place like lying or hijack or killing are unfavorable in any place or truth and honesty  are pleasing in any place.\nBut the truth is people always distort the standard of good and bad in differents positions in personal interest.\nFor example if you read American history books you will note that America dropped atomics bombs on Japons two cities\nHiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 for ending the war and brining peace to the that war torn country so as claimed by Harry s. truman  , the u.s. president , nuclear weapons could be used for peacful purposes too !!\nRight now you see they are nt agree that a country like Iran have nuclear technology  for providing fuel electricity plants medical and agricultural usage only.\nWell dont you think if they hadnt distorted the standard of  peacful purposes before or they had the standard of good and bad now they hadnt problem with peacful nuclear activities of Iran ? But the truth is this is people who  determind the standard of good and bad killing is unfavorable in any place or any religion and culture but you see in a muslim country like afghanistan a person threaten to death when he express his personal belifes dont you think if we are really agree to freedom of thoughts if we really believe in honesty is good an killing is unfavorable this things never must happened in any place?\nBut it happen over and over and there is no exception for that in any place as there is no standard for good and bad though moral virtues or faults always are a firmed fact in any time and place\n you see the standard of good and bad could change in place and time and it hurt so good.
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The battle between being a good person and an evil person. When raised in an abusive environment one has to choose whether to beat them or join them. Instinct and years of programming makes you want to join them, but making a conscious effort to be a decent person is worth it.
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Only in this world is there choice.  But this is a double edged sword.  We as people can make good choices or bad choices.  That is up to us alone.  This world is a good place, nowhere else can we have choice.  Every moment it begins a new as being good.  It will either remain good by good choices, and be made bad by our choices.  But even if we turn it bad by one choice, the next choice comes and the world is good again, and we have a chance to make it better with a good decision.  We simply need to know what is good to do and what is bad to do and break ourselves of the bad things.
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Actually, this is of great debate. Some people say that human nature is good, possibly because of our tendency toward community and moral universalism (which is a debate among a few also). However, some people also say it is human nature to be evil and that is exploited in modern society with the loss of God as a societal focal point.  I actually believe that as humans, we are neutral because we have the ability to do great things on both sides of the spectrum.\n\nHowever, I noticed that you're comparing sins, murder and criminality (like stealing and lying) and saying stealing to live is not a sin. I agree with you! But the problem is that we live in a society built on capitalism, which demands that goods are made cheaply and sold for great profit. Workers are exploited, and there's a large mass of poor people to support the system. Capitalism cannot work any other way. It's not necessarily the rich people's fault.\n\nThe real problem is what we are taught growing up.  Everyone is told that if only they work hard enough, they all can earn lots of money and be happy, the American Dream to be middle class and middle management, if not higher. First of all, money doesn't bring happiness. And second of all, capitalism cannot function with a lot of people being more than the "poor" level, so people are forced to live in situations where they don't have enough food or money to pay rent. Surviving is not sinning.\n\nThat was addressing criminality as a sin part. Now you ask why god gave us evil. We, as people, are like the world and are neutral. The world creates many natural disasters which destroy and kill. This is part of its cycle. God is our guiding influence toward good, but since people are capable of evil and have free will, no one can stop someone from choosing destruction if that's their ultimate choice (what they would choose beyond others' talking to them, etc.)  Simply, God did not introduce evil. God introduced free will, which ran the risk of evil even though great things were possible through good. It was a risk factor and we have to learn through society to moderate those that are not choosing the best options, and this society does not best facilitate that.\n\nEDIT: And to respond to those that say evil is from Satan. The Bible stories are just that, stories to explain to ancient people why things are the way they are in the world.\n\nI do not believe in Satan. I believe it is a philosophical argument we examined from Anselm (a Christian philosopher if you must know.)  God is eternal, infinite, incorruptible. The only one.  God is also pure good. Evil is the absence of good, so everything has differing degrees of good and evil in them. Satan represents the entire lack of good, pure evil. But if Satan is pure evil, he is incorruptible (cannot be made more evil), but the only incorruptible thing, is God. So Satan does not exist at all because Satan cannot be the same as God.\n\nSatan does not tempt people to sin, people choose it of their own free will.
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The lesser of two evils is STILL evil.\n\nWhere is the good, OK?
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"Good" depends upon an individual person's upbringing and each one's personal definition of good. Tarzan, though a fictional character, grew up with no knowledge that any "religion" existed, Christian, Islam, or other. To him, "good" was probably letting one of his monkey friends have the last banana and evil was somebody stealing his banana. \n\nWithout knowledge, all we have to go on is experience. When we are young, we learn by seeing what our parents and those around us do. We are not born knowing what absolute good and evil are. We are in some ways like a computer program. We have to have someone program us to tell us what good and evil are and then we become game players and choose to be good or to be evil.\n\nI'm always facsinated by the concept of age determining our ability to make our own decisions. In the United States, the law says you cannot be tried as an adult (except in certain cases, usually involving murder) if you are under 18, because the law assumes that you don't know right from wrong until you turn 18, when you magically know.\n\nI believe that we learn at a very young age what's good and what's evil, from our own cultural standpoint. What's unclear is the levels of gray and whose version of good and evil is the "correct" one, if such a thing exists.
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More and more research is showing that humans make decisions based on emotions.  The next step is to set up "good" reasons to justify what was selected.\n\nOne person than rejects religion based on "reason" and another accepts religion on the basis of "belief."   In effect both are doing the same thing.\n\nFor the 6.7 billion on earth the answer is neither.
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Because good people tend to see the good in others and other people realise this and play them like a fool.
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We have freedom of choice.  Some choose to be bad.
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Bad things happen to good and bad people both. It only seems like an injustice when it happens to a good person. Often, good people are people who have overcome bad circumstances.
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The Best of a bad bunch...\n\nI like to be the best at everything.  I'm very competetive.  As long as I'm on top, I'm happy...even if I'm doing something horrible!  \n\nBeing the worst at something totally sucks.  It makes me depressed and I sit around moping about it.
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I truely believe that people whom think positively about people and life are more likely to take risks and act nicely subconciously, then negative thinkers. This then manipulates the fact that they are more open to opportunities than negative people. We as people  ing eneral make our own luck in different ways and in the choices we make. Making good choices, not the right choices,but good choices will lead you to a better life and more positive feedback from people. Some luck is based on fate of something that is bound to happe no matter what and some is based on manipulating your opportunities.
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Good Judgement comes from Experience, Experience comes from Bad Judgement.
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if everyone was good how could we compare how evil somethiing is to how  good?
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Pretty much everyone thinks it's good or bad.  There's always that 4% or so that are undecided, but otherwise folks think it is good or bad.\n\nGood luck.
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To be very general, I think that "bad people" usually have had some sort of trauma and/or "heart break" in their past that affected them so much that they decided not to bother being good again. Bad behavior can be a defensive front for covering up insecurities, resentment and pain.  But then again bad people usually know that their actions are bad and often time it's just the result of selfishness and nothing more.\n\nGood people on the other hand tend to be resilient to bad things and traumas or they might deal with trauma in a more complex way hence it seems that they get heart broken more often.  Being tuned in to your feelings and emotions and being a giving person is never a bad thing.  Having people take advantage of this is.
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Criticism. It is great if someone support your positive qualities, but if that praise is undeserved then it is at best worthless. Criticism, even if one doesn't like it, is the only way to learn your faults and correct them. No one needs a fawning sycophant, everyone needs honesty.