Can an inherently bad person be a good person by doing good deeds
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Greta wrote: ↑October 4th, 2020, 8:16 pmHehehe, it depends on the individual. There are people out there who are overbearingly focused on the internal workings of their victims, er, partners. Civil rights campaigners, advertisers and dictators, too - the latter seeing their intrusions as risk management, preventing thoughts from growing into deeds. For that reason I expect the west to increasingly prohibit speech online that is seen as disruptive, probably becoming ever more like the Chinese, who no doubt came upon their systems of control because of civil unrest caused by rumours and exposés in the past.Jack D Ripper wrote: ↑October 4th, 2020, 2:20 pm
I think that is right. Except that the internal workings do not really matter to bonded others. People may imagine that they do, but they don't. What matters is what the bonded others do, which includes what they say. Just because you are bonded to others, that does not make you able to read people's minds.
Now, it may be that someone would not do something if they did not feel a certain way, but what matters to others is what they do.
The rest of us, though, tend to be too busy trying to hold our own lives together to much notice others' troubles, let alone care about them.
There are a lot of people who spend a lot of time thinking about what is going on in other people's minds, but no matter how much they might think about it, all they ever see is what the people do. Making a big deal out of what is going on in other people's minds does not make one a mind reader. The judgements that people make about what is going on in other people's minds are all based on what they do. That is, all of the reasoning is based on that; one might imagine anything without any basis in fact, if one wished to make up unsubstantiated foolishness that has no connection with reality.
What people do not only obviously affects other people, but what people do is the source of one's information about what is going on in their minds.
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