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As for myself...I do the best that I can. I stumble some along the way, but I pick myself up, dust myself off, and carry on. I don't intentianaly set out to do any harm, if that carries any weight.
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mr. o'rights said what i would have said for myself almost exactly as i was thinking of saying it....past that, i fundamentally do not know what the notion of "being a good person" means.
everyone likes to imagine themselves as such--and everyone is capable of doing harm to others, given the proper combination of circumstances--so it seems to me that no-one is purely anything.
it even seems that imagining yourself too good a person can be problematic in that it can cause you to underestimate the power of situations in shaping not only your actions but how you see them.
trying to see yourself and take account of your actions seems to me a process that is often very difficult to do---ascribing a state to yourself (being a good person) doesnt seem to help much.
but like i said, maybe i just do not understand what it means.