Because it feels bad if I do wrong. If I pull a dick move, I always feel guilty about it. Unless the guy deserved it, like that damn camper in CoD, he needs a good teabag.
Poll: Why do YOU do what is right?
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I think I can best describe it with Gandhi's quote
"Be the change you wish to see in the world".
If I don't help people, I can't be expected for them to help me. I am not sure what that falls into. It isn't so far as "I helped someone so Karma is on my side now!" but that would be the closest answer. Then again, does it matter why someone does good?
"Be the change you wish to see in the world".
If I don't help people, I can't be expected for them to help me. I am not sure what that falls into. It isn't so far as "I helped someone so Karma is on my side now!" but that would be the closest answer. Then again, does it matter why someone does good?
Like most men, I just like the feeling of being useful.
Useful = Powerful, and men just like feeling powerful, even to a superficial degree.
Useful = Powerful, and men just like feeling powerful, even to a superficial degree.
Because I like the feeling. I don't expect to achieve anything that will be remembered after I'm gone, but at least I can do some good for some people here and now.
While I don't believe in a god per se. (Cthulhu for prez 2012! whoo!) I do like that 'golden rule' Do onto others as you would have them do onto you. For instance about a year or so ago. I found an envelope with a lot of money in it. I turned it into the customer Service center at Martin's where I work and where I found the Envelope. It had almost 500 dollars in it. I didn't know this when I turned it in. But I did see a lot of money when I peeked in it. After I turned it in the woman who it belonged to came and got it and gave me a 50 as thanks. I was expecting a reward. But I turned it in cause I know that if someone found my money I'd like them to do the same.
Part of it is, like you said for my pride. I take pride in the fact that I'm a good person. There are times when I've been tempted to do the immoral/ethically unsound thing, but I've managed to do whats right in the end. To much detriment of my wants sometimes, but I prefer to be the exception, not the example.
Because in the end i will redeem my actions prior to my enlightenment... Or because the world has its fill of s***heads and i beleive its time to eve out the balance once again. Hmm. Maybe both of those reasons.
Because I was raised that way. Even right now, being the rebellious teenager I am, doing right just feels...right.
Because I feel bad about doing bad things.
I couldn't be an effective villain if I wanted to.
Still, when possible to do nothing at all, that is my usual course of action.
I couldn't be an effective villain if I wanted to.
Still, when possible to do nothing at all, that is my usual course of action.
Why? Depends. Sometimes im a vindictive bastard who would condemn a man to death if i didnt like him, though for my friends i will do whatever it takes to help them knowing i will get the same. Consider me Neutral Evil with a tiny, shining pebble of gold lodged in my blackened heart.
I dont always do what is right, I do what will benefit me the most in the end. Whether being kind to someone or stepping on them I'll try to do what is most advantageous to me, and the only time I'll do what is right when it is not most beneficial is only when the consequences of being punished for wrong doing overshadows the benefit.