The Importance Of Good People In Society

From the beginning of time, humanity has struggled to answer the question of "what it is to be a good person in the world?" The bible as well as family has tried to teach us to be better people in society and as individuals from an early age, but it is up to the individual at the end of the day to make that decision of choosing to be a good person or a bad one. In this age it is not easy to be good. Oppression, war, violence, government, friends, and even technology have a significant negative impact on becoming a good person. Even in our daily lives, trying hard to be a good example to your kids or others can be a challenge. We gossip, we blow people off, ignore, gripe, and judge. Asking the question; What is it to be good?

Every single country you can possibly go in this world will have a different idea of what being good is. Your society can judge you as being a good or bad person but it is not just how your society thinks what a good or bad person is. Other societies also judge you even worse than your own at times. One example is Afghanistan; an Islamic country for the most part. A clear majority of Americans judge their culture and costumes as being awful. We look at their society as savage and non-educated, yet we do not ever think that their ways might not be terrible, but that is the way their society functions. Stoning a woman to death for committing adultery in the middle of the town is a standard and normal action which most Americans would consider bad, but