there are only two kinds of good people in the world, do you agree?

Question

first kind, the intelligent good people:
they do good things to you so that they can get better reputation, better information, get more help, job opportunities.

second kind, the stupid ones.
they do good things to you because they realize what you feel by substituting your feelings into himself.

but i do not think intelligent people would do good things to other people due to the second reason.

Answer 1

There are good ppl in the world, I believe that I am one.
I don't believe in wronging ppl, I believe in fairness.

(Although, I may be a teeny bit of a smartass sometimes, on here.)
(And I don't go out of my way to help strangers, usually)

I do think there are good and bad ppl, but I also believe that most ppl are in between in varying degrees.

Answer 2

THERE'S ONE KIND OF PERSON.

The individual human being. Every one is different.

People do good for lots of different reason's and it's naive to judge in such a bitter way.

A person that does a good thing for reputation enhancement alone isn't really doing much of a good thing. They're committing a selfish act purely for their own gain.

Doing good really means doing something positive for no personal gain. However, just doing good in itself is no bad thing.

I disagree with:

"second kind, the stupid ones.
they do good things to you because they realise what you feel by substituting your feelings into himself." -

it takes intelligence to empathise with others.

I could say you are stupid because you jump to judgemental conclusions but I won't. Maybe you should take a bit more time and use a bit more thought before making potentially offensive statements. It will do you no good to go through life seeing only the negative in people.

I think it's wrong to develop an opinion about intelligence based around why somebody does good. I also think you've got it totally wrong.

Answer 3

Disagree, good people don't want bad stuff to happen to people. Substituting feelings from others into yourself is called empathy. At university I knew some very intelligent people who could also empathise, and they could on that basis do good things because of empathy, they also used their intelligence to find the best way. I have met a lot of stupid bad people and bad intelligent people. The desire to good is for the most part due to individual reasons and as such the type is not easily defined. Why people do things or behave in certain ways is not completely understood, you only need to look at the plethora of psychological research that is still ongoing to realise that we still do not really know. However there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that nurture (being brought up in the culture or way of doing things) plays a big part. If you are stupid but you have only ever seen people being good, chance are you will be a good person and vice versa.

Answer 4

The division into two groups and attributes to each appear to be too knave.I think people can be divided into groups on the basis of different criteria-Intelligent people who ponder over the purposes of their creation, try to spread goodness, knowledge and serve humanity and keep on working in this direction with steadfastness and endure all sufferings towards this goal and the others are those while away their time resources and efforts in trivial pursuits and end up as directionless and without any tangible results.

Answer 5

That's not true!!! You can have smart people who stay up, every night, and work their b*tts off, not for money, and not for reputation, and not for anything but the mere thought of acquiring enough knowledge to help people! I mean okay...better reputation, better information, job oppurtunites....are any of those REALLY that motivating? No...some people are intellegent BECAUSE they're sympathetic. Well some people- a lot can be what you described :-)

Answer 6

If I do good it's because you reap what you sew. What goes around comes around. This doesn't make me feel better for any of the two reasons you mention above, i.e. reputation or substituted feelings.

Answer 7

Good people. Non-existent. Nobody is all good or all bad. Some people are just more expressive of one side over another. Some exercise a healthy balance of positive and negative. Though, there's no factual basis for morality. It's all a matter of perspective.

Answer 8

Don't agree with you at all. You have a very machiavelian picture of intelligent people who chose to be good. An act is only really good if it is not self-serving. I don't really understand your second reason perhaps you could clarify.

Answer 9

stupid people can do good things to you to get a better reputation, better info, more help, and job opportunities too. and intelligent people can also do good things to you because they realize what you feel by substituting your feelings into himslef too. stupid people can also do bad things to improve their reputations, and often do. (or try) and intelligent people can also do bad things to people just because for a moment they have a weekness.

Answer 10

Well... I tend to think(most) humans are innately good and have a basic sense of right and wrong. Of course people have different motives for their "good" deeds. I would say someone doing a good deed just to score brownie points is less moral than the one that does it out of the goodness of their heart.