safty: GOOD!
harm: BAD!
In other words if you value a life (including yours) that's good and it's better if you avoid things that harm life even if it's little by little, causing a bit of misery (vice, superstition, violence, etc). I believe salvtion from the tendacy to do bad things is what true salvation is. Then good atheist go to the New Jerusalem after the resurrection, right?
2006-10-05 05:41:12 · 8 answers · asked by Cyber 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good and bad are whatever you decide they will be... and yes, usually those things are connected with benefit or harm.
2006-10-05 05:43:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good is whatever makes me feel good.
Bad is whatever makes me feel bad.
For instance, I judge a starving child as something bad because I immediately put myself in the seat of the child, and think of how bad it would be for me to starve. I then feel bad for the child relating how I would feel bad in that situation.
I judge someone being killed as something bad because I immediately put myself in the seat of the person being killed, and think of how bad it would be for me to die now. I then get a bad feeling about killing, so I label it as bad.
In other words, being safe is good for me, so I judge it as being good; and being harmed is bad for me, so I judge it as being bad.
But this isn't the difference between good and bad.
If I'm, say, a shopkeeper, and one day a guy came and robbed my store, then tied me up, and then went to my house and killed my family; then I don't consider it as a bad thing to kill that man. I make a calculation that it would be better for me to see him killed than to see him alive, and so I try to set him up with a death sentence. Now, in this context, I see killing someone as something good.
So the foundation for good and bad is "What makes me feel good I consider to be good; and what makes me feel bad I consider to be bad."
2006-10-05 12:54:40 · answer #2 · answered by ken w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do things that cause other people to suffer, then that's bad.
However, you shouldn't live a life of being so careful that you never take risks.
2006-10-05 12:43:37 · answer #3 · answered by PJ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question. God will judge men by their hearts and their deeds. People who are genuinely good will reap the fruits they have sown, I believe.
2006-10-05 12:45:09 · answer #4 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what may be bad to you may not be considered bad by me. what may be considered bad by me may not be considered bad by you. what may be good to you may not be considered good by me and what may be good to me might not be considered good by you. therefore each individual needs to determine what is both good and bad for themselves as long as the free will of others is not infringed upon and as long as the laws rules and mores of the culture and society are adhered to.
2006-10-05 12:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they r relative to each other.. in absolute terms there is no good no bad
2006-10-05 12:44:00 · answer #6 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you are right.
2006-10-05 12:43:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what the hell are you talking about?
2006-10-05 12:44:19 · answer #8 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋