What is so important about being a good person, if I may ask?

On Apr 3, 10:10 pm, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you spend your time being and/or learning to be the best person you
> can, you will make life better for those around you. This is a dynamic
> activity, one that directly influences how you treat others. This
> means that both are sympathetic concepts, not isolated.
> The most horrendous human may do good helping others (BTK and predator
> priests are good examples), yet ultimately they are still horrendous.
> The best person ever could spend all their time on following some
> outdated guideline of what is good yet never truly help another
> person.
>
> On Apr 3, 10:19 am, Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Back again with a dilemma.
> > For quite a while I speak with people and now and then we come to the
> > question: why do we do the things we do? Generally I come to 2 views.
> > We live to help other people, this is the motor behind all behaviour
> > (altruism). Or we nor live for ourself and all things we do are from a
> > self interest view, we give love to receive it (egoism). So I was
> > wondering how may I look at these views? Do I really only want to help
> > myself or only help myself.
>
> > Greetings,
> > Matthijs

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