Are you a good person?

[Nihilego]

Do you consider yourself a good person and why? And before you ask me to define "good person" for you, I'd like to ask you to do it yourself and tell me if you're a good person in your own eyes!

 

[Kajini]

I think I'm a good person. There is one person in this world that I think really cares what I think, do, feel or say and that's my fiance and I try my best to live my life in ways she'd approve as she does for me. I do my best to make her happy because I truly feel that her happiness is the most important thing in the world. That may make me a bad person to others but in my eyes and hers I feel I am good.

 

[Nick]

I do think I'm a good person. I'm a good-hearted person who's caring, honest, kind, courteous, compassionate, understanding, generous, and many other traits like that. I try my best to make people I know happy and am okay with sacrificing things for other people and giving back, and I posses moral values I consider to be positive and important in a person.

Unfortunately, sometimes I think being a good person leads me to being hurt in the end when others are involved. Despite being a good person, bad things seem to happen more than good and I was raised thinking good things happen to good people so that leads me feeling a little disenfranchised by systems. Because of that, I've come to not expect much from others and a little bitter (I expect people with less pure hearts to get further in life than me and other people like me).

 

[Haguri]

I think I'm a good person. There is one person in this world that I think really cares what I think, do, feel or say and that's my fiance and I try my best to live my life in ways she'd approve as she does for me. I do my best to make her happy because I truly feel that her happiness is the most important thing in the world. That may make me a bad person to others but in my eyes and hers I feel I am good.

I would agree with you here. (Since I'm the fiance xD)

Though as far as me being a good person? I suppose I am to HIM and HIM alone.
I can get along with others with intelligence, and I LOVE it when people know more than me and teach me something. (Especially if it involves history)

I do not mind if you are ignorant in certain areas, but I don't appreciate it when people are close-minded and clueless to everything. These are the people I have no respect for, which could make me a bad person in their eyes, I don't know.

Sort of like my mother whom I never deal with because she dropped out in 8th grade and doesn't even have the slightest clue to what a Historian is and that's exactly what I'm going to college to be. You can't explain anything to her either, so why try? So anyway good person? I am to an extent... but if I believed in heaven or hell, I doubt heaven would be the place for me.

I believe in Karma though, and I believe my good karma outweighs the bad.

 

[Ayselipera]

All I can say is I'll be nice to you if you're nice to me and if I care about you then I'll most likely be there for you if you need me. So take from that what you will.

 

[Legobricks]

I think more basely — of what is beneficial and what is adversarial.
As it happens I prefer to benefit myself without causing adversity to others, ergo to common human morality I am generally good-natured.

 

[PlatinumDude]

To me, a good person is someone who tried their best to be nice or polite to anyone. I think I'm those things because I don't like to get into any form of conflict.

 

[Rogue planet]

I don't always manage to be a good person, but the fact that I do try to be as good as I can as often as I can, and that I feel guilty when I'm not, suggests to me that in general I am a good person.

I try to think about others, I help out people when I can and I never purposefully try to hurt others, so I don't think I'm really a bad person. But all of us have our moments; I just feel sometimes I have more moments than a lot of people, and I pay the price for that, what comes around goes around. It's better for everyone to just do your best and consider other people.

 

[Esper]

Being a good person is the thing I care most about. I want to be a good person for others and for myself because I think everything that's worthwhile stems from that. I can't adequately describe what I think a good person is though. Maybe I'm just tired right now, but it seems just... obvious what it is. You do good things and voilà! you're a good person.

I do think I'm a good person, but I also think I could stand to be a better person.

 

[Shining Raichu]

I like to think I'm a good person. To me, a good person is somebody who will live and let live. They live how they like and don't try to stop others from doing the same - or furthermore, try to stop others from stopping others from doing the same (if they want extra credit lol). I think I'm like that, most definitely.

 

[Souma]

I punch people, I hurt people's feelings, I steal stuff... In my own terms, I'm totally a good person!

I know I'm a good person. I've never hurt anyone and try to be as nice as possible to everyone. A true pacifist, you may say. I'm not as generous as some people however, I tend to only help out if it isn't much of a task. But at least, I always care for other's feelings, as long as they don't hurt me.

 

[2Cool4Mewtwo]

I'd want to think that I'm a good person, but sometimes I offend people without even knowing it.

 

[Nagaraja]

I'm a good person... My thoughts....not so much.

 

[-Grayscale-]

I'm a bad person. Not saying this because I lack self-confidence whatsoever, but because I do a lot of terrible things and tend to take advantage of people if I can. Examples: Stealing. If I could rob someone of their money and get away with it, I probably would right away. I steal from my parents whenever I spend some money from a trip/movie or something, and don't really give back the rest... not too proud of it, but meh. I'm a greedy b****. Another example: I don't connect with people well. I really can't say that I feel the same way about certain people that really seem to adore me, and I bet I could leave all but one or two behind if I had to. Also, I eat babies in my free time.

Any good qualities I have can be lingered over by negative traits, sad to say it. But I can say that I do try to be sincerely kind to people, and help others with their issues. That last thing is actually one of the few things I love to do and take pride in. Makes me feel better about myself, lol. I also tend to be nice as long as they don't do anything to my friends or annoy me(too bad I have a high temper). I stumble a lot on sentences, but I tend to talk a lot more intelligent and clear when I'm angry rofl.

More faults is the fact I'm jealous of everyone. I have too high of expectations. I am lazy at everything and slack. I suck at sports I act modest to get more compliments than I deserve, I laugh way too much at people, and again I'm greedy. Oh well. I'm human, I can say that.

Great topic/thread. I enjoyed writing this, surprisingly.

 

[Her]

This is a question I have struggled with for quite some time now. How does one truly measure the quality of ones character? How can I know if I am truly a good person, or if I am an evil person? I just can't decide. Although my inner bring tells me that I am over analyzing this, I cannot help but wonder if I really am a good person. I do not intend on causing harm to those around me and I certainly do not ever want to harm them. The people I love are all I have in this world. I love, I care, I help others and I try not to hate people. To me, hate corrupts a person. I mean, sure, hating isn't evil but some hate can lead to evil, the opposite of what we deem 'good'. I am not free of hate, no; there are some people who I cannot forgive for the crimes that they have exacted against me. But does that make me a bad person? No, I don't believe it does. So what does make me a bad person, exactly? Lying, corruption, greed and harming the physical flesh of others, let alone their spiritual or mental 'flesh'. To my knowledge, I have not done any of those things apart from lying and that I am sorry for. What else makes me a bad person? Ignorance? Prejudice? Many, many things. But, I am deviating from the point of this thread. So, am I a good person? I suppose so. Although I am plagued by doubt when I write this, I see no evidence that says I am not a good person. Maybe it is easier to say I am neither good not evil, maybe it is simpler to say, with the risk of sounding like a cheesy Hannah Montana or Demi Lovato song, that I am simply me.

 

[Saryka]

I guess I'm good, but I definitely could be a lot better. That's all there is to it.

 

[mikey]

I am a good person. I am loyal to my friends and family, trustworthy, kind, etc. I am the exact opposite of a bad person.

 

[Hybrid Trainer]

To me a good person is someone who always takes into account other people and how their own actions will effect those around them. So yes from my views I am a pretty decent person.

 

[-Jared-]

Hmmm...I really don;t know. On the one hand, I have traits that I think are great and that I wish more people had, but on the other hand, I have traits that I absolutely abhor about myself that in all honesty, I kinda think negate all the good things. :\

So overall, I am in between.

 

[Overlord Drakow]

Not particularly. I don't really do that many selfless things for people. I don't give back to the local community and I generally look after number one before anyone else.