Goodness

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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Ollie.ha
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Have you ever been asked “what’s good”?
Next time I get asked this I want a legitimate answer.

So, “what’s good”
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Ollie.ha wrote: Sun Apr 19, 2026 1:02 am
So, “what’s good”
When Debbie Downer beams up.
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Ollie.ha wrote: Sun Apr 19, 2026 1:02 am Have you ever been asked “what’s good”?
Next time I get asked this I want a legitimate answer.

So, “what’s good”
That's a good question.
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But maybe, in practice, what we need is the relation "better than" as in "A is better than B". This might be sufficient to our needs and let us duck difficult issues around the good/best. Those issues clearer once we start with"better than"

IS there a "best"? Is there some A such that there exists no B better than A?
If there is, does now mean always? If A is the best NOW, after you have lots of A or had a for a long time, is it necessarily still the best.
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Same issue.

What makes one thing better than another?
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