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No such thing. We are all just people on a spectrum somewhere between good and evil. No such thing as pure good, and no such thing as pure evil.

Even Hitler loved dogs.

That being said, however, I can't think of a single positive thing about Trump

Ehh kinda gave up on good and evil. It's better to say pro/anti social. Im learning to be more social.

But I'd do more "good things" than most people but I'd still say I have a lot more that I can do, and I could be more proactive in general.

It's like you can think your a good person for picking up other people trash, but then realized that people dump carbon dioxide into the air and don't do anything about it.

I'm somewhere between Lawful Evil and Chaotic Neutral, with an occasional moment of Neutral Good.

Not really. Most of the things that I do are very neutral, and there are a few things that I do that are pretty awful, although of limited scope in harms. I'm mostly nice to people, I try to help where I can, but these aren't really exemplary things, these are just part of living in a society.

What qualifies as good? Mother Theresa was seen as "good". May she rest in piss.

No. Not gonna pretend to be. I can be an asshole at times.

I generally try to do more good than bad, and I try not to hurt anyone. But good people probably don't hope that the US president and most of the billionaires stop breathing...

Not really

I feel like I do good things just because they make people like me. Idk.

At one point in my life. Good people make good decisions every day to stay good. We don’t have the luxury of goodness in America anymore. Not going to pretend like this horrible society isn’t turning me into a fucking monster just like everyone else.

I don't like hurting other people.

Nowadays that qualifies as good.

The bar is so low I don't think I have trouble passing as one of the good ones.

My friends, family and I believe most of my colleagues think so

I reject the premise of this question.

I try my best. I lead life with empathy for all people and creatures. We've all only got one world after all.

My intentions are to promote human flourishing, and I try to follow my intentions. If I was talking about someone else, I would unequivocally qualify that as being a good person. So by transitive purposes I just have to qualify myself as one.

Yes. I'm not perfect but I try to do positive things and minimize the harm/impact of my life on the world around me.

I think I've met a handful of "good" people in my life. I'm not one of them.

I’ve stopped caring. The worst people in my country decide everything for the rest of us. At this point I don’t care about being good, I just want to exert my will and trod them into the dirt at every opportunity

Eh, I try. I think I succeed more often than not, but most bad people think they're good, right? I try to calibrate against the broader society as a whole, but it often seems like society isn't really aligned with goodness anyway. So here I am, trying to suss out the good parts of society and align with that, and trying to suss out the bad parts and follow my own moral compass there. But again, bad people probably generally think they're good, so it's a bit of a conundrum innit?

Minimize harm to others, and try to help as much as you can. Except sometimes harming bad people somewhat is good, and sometimes help is counterproductive.

I'm confident that I am a person. I try to emulate what good is like. Life is hard.

I'm definitely not a bad person.

I make it easy for someone to argue that I am.

But I'm also difficult and hard to connect with.

I'm fortunate enough that it's not hard to be good. I've rarely, if ever, been forced into situations where I have to cause any kind of hardship to anyone to get my needs met. I try to leverage the privilege I've been afforded to act in ways that are more globally conscientious (i.e., I have the time and money to choose ethical alternatives to Amazon, live in a city with public transit, can afford non-meat alternatives and still have a nutritionally complete diet, etc.)

I try to be socially conscientious. I try to limit the problems I cause to others. I take care of people where I can and say hello to my neighbors. I give to charity and sponsor artists. I've broken up a street fight and walked a stranger through a scary part of town because she asked me to.

But if I had to make the really hard choice I'm not sure if I could. "I'm not a coward I've just never been tested. I'd like to think if I was I would pass."

I don't know, and it just feels wrong to say myself that I am (feels like this meme).

I feel like I'm a good person. My anxiety tells me I'm not and people hate me though so there's that.

Yes, but I am an asshole at the same time

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

Define "good".

I'm not Fred Rogers good. I know that much.

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I try to be.

I don't like to say "good person" and "bad person" because I feel like it implies that there is some objective scale of goodness that people can be compared to, and I think that is simply not the case. So I would rather think of this question as "Do you have a positive opinion of yourself?"

No, no I don't. My opinion of myself is extremely negative.

Yes. No qualifiers.

We are all doing the best we can with what we have. All the humble "no" respondents are too.

I don't like the person I used to be. I'd like to think i'm a descent person now.

All people think they are good humans. Even Hitler thought he was doing the best for his people. Good intentions don't make net positive people though.

Like must people I have kneejerk opinions and reactions, though I analyze them before I let them loose. I ask myself "what would a good person do?" and then I do that.

I know with some of my strong beliefs ( not counting people who willingly use genAI when not required of them as people ) that I am by no means a good perspn by a few standards.

I feel like I'm a good dad. I'm on my own. His mom took off without warning and ruined her relationship with him. I have been his only safety for a decade. She's around, but doesn't give a shit about anything that matters to him.

Everything else, I try to be a decent person. I don't take what isn't mine and try to be whatever my mouth says. I don't really think there is much more to being "good".

I think I put more good into the world than bad. Whether I put in more good than I've consumed, I wonder about that a lot. I've been very fortunate in life.

I will leave that judgment to whomever eats me.

Chaotic good

Leonard Cohen's last song released days before he died was called "You Want It Darker." One of the verses is:

"They're lining up the prisoners and the guards are taking aim, I struggled with some demons, they were middle class and tame, I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim, You want it darker, we kill the flame."

Anyway, that's me, in the middle class. I could be better, but however bad I am, I'm still on the tame level.