Essay On Goodness And Badness

Goodness is a central question of life. Humankind tends to be good and the whole

humankind seeks to the question of what goodness is. People throughout the history have

changed notions of goodness, so strongly; and as a result, it has caused difficulties in defining

goodness. Also it is obvious that people often correlate goodness and badness to their current

requirements and needs. People tend to categorize everything; and since the beginning of human

existence people use such words as morality, generosity, ethics, kindness to describe the

goodness; and immorality, coarseness, infirmity to describe badness.

However, the overabundance of sources which define goodness and badness such as

society, religions, newspapers and social networks

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meaningless. Thereby, goodness and badness are inseparable notions. Just imagine the world

where everything is only good or bad. People would respond to every action with the same

emotion. Killing people would seem as an act of goodness or doing charity as bad thing. For this

reason, existence of goodness and badness become important as never before.

To put it briefly, we can say that nowadays society and religions play the significant role

in defining goodness and badness, however, it appears obviously that goodness and badness can

exist despite the society and religions because such thing as morality is incorporated in human

nature. Every act of goodness and badness have their own purpose and do not have something in

common. Because some people do good deeds in order to satisfy themselves or to feel

themselves worthy of something. Even if going against society is unpleasant and difficult it is

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worthy of trying because going through or beyond the frames of society allows you define what

goodness truly means for you; and it is important to determine goodness in a way you see it, but

not in a way religions and society want from