Why do people confuse 'feeling good' for 'doing good' and thereby 'being good'. Why do people seek it out so much, and consequently, not only seek it but justify it. Are there any contemporary writers who engage with this dilemma? Is it the lack of proper education? The superabundance of misinformation and specious reasoning? Is there a country or society which doesn't merely seek 'feeling good' but instead seeks 'doing good' and thereby 'being good'
>Why do people confuse 'feeling good' for 'doing good' and thereby 'being good'Thanks to the sons of the Illustretardation,there is nowhere where this is not the case, maybe a when 500 ago plus, try barroque grecolatins
>>24747020How can someone determine if what they're doing is actually 'being good', without some sort of innate instinct driving them to view the act as 'good'? Of course, socialization matters, such that a murderer, even if he feels good about the act, would know it was 'not good' since there is an established consensus on the topic. It seems to me that people justify prioritizing the sentiment of 'good' since it is the original motivator to 'be good'
>>24747049By using reason and analyzing reality as it is, we can pretty reasonably deduce whether an act constitutes as 'being good'. When you said this:>How can someone determine if what they're doing is actually 'being good', without some sort of innate instinct driving them to view the act as 'good';you assumed a fact that isn't in the evidence. Or rather, you assumed that 'some sort of innate instinct' is all there is to viewing an act as 'good'. You need to justify this first and not merely assume it. Unless of course you include reason as an innate instinct which I do not think you, but I could be mistaken.>It seems to me that people justify prioritizing the sentiment of 'good' since it is the original motivator to 'be good'What do you mean? In particular, could you provide an explicit example? To help, this is what I mean: transactivist seek to justify the fantasies of mentally unwell people not by acknowledging that what they are doing merely feels good, but instead by baselessly assuming transgenderism good (because it feels good and you are a meanie, weird, 'they just wanna be themselves, live their own private life; nevermind that I am going to shove this down your throat and force you accept my ideology'). They operate with the idea that "Something is good if and only something feels good"; thus, thanks to the biconditional, because it feels good it must be good. Even though this biconditional is patently false. This type of logic isn't exclusive to them, however, it is widely prevalent among them.
>>24747020>Why do people confuse 'feeling good' for 'doing good'Because we are hardwired for hedonism.
