Friday, January 21, 2005
A better person?
Once, I was asked by friend of mine how to judge a person character. I replied her that it can be seen through its prayer which is in my religion it is done five times a day. The sehe replied me back saying that, once a person do "funny" stuff, although she know that he pray all the time. So I said probably because his prayer just a ritual, so they don't have any meaning for him. She also added that another friend of her is nice and good person although he wasn't pray well. Well after this my arguments wasn't solid at all because if I remember correctly I'm also have a lot of friends like hers.
So a question come to my mind. How you judge a person character? By judging of what they've done? not really, I think. A bad ass person in the past can become a saint today, or vice versa. Since person heart is always changing, their action value will be like that too. By their religion and education? Since higher education will create a "better person". This is also not true, an uneducated person can do the same bad or good thing as educated ones, in many cases, infact the more educated person can be, the more destructive they will be, like curroption cases. So probably by their appearance? This is the most stupid theory I've ever think of. I don't need to expain why or how though.
From all these thinking, I noticed that I always thinking by comparing people through my own standard, meaning how they action towards me, and how they action impact the environment. These will make the definition of good and bad very subjective, thus I'm certain that there is no absolute "good" or "bad" person. "Good" or "bad" value is reflected throughout their action to their environment which consists of many diverse people despite of whether the values is "right" or "wrong"
Because of this if we want to be considered good to many people we have to be able to act "good" towards them. Doing the "good" thing rather the "right", according each people value will gain their favour, so the more people favor we can gain, the better person we will be. Is it true?
