Do you find it easy to be bad or difficutl to be good?

Question

Bad usually requires tons of leg work. Lying is usually involved, so you have to be able to keep a story straight. Being good... is so simple. You just tell the truth all the time and just live life being loving.

Why do people make it so difficult?

Answer 1

I'm mostly neutral and I think people in general are the same. From there you need to define what acts are bad and what acts are good. Selfishness is considered bad and we are often selfish. What's easier, following your selfish greed and take the last cookie or being good and give it to someone else? Or, watching a TV show that you like instead of going over to your parents and offer them your help with anything they need help with? It's not even about lying, it's about doing what you want to instead of what you should do. In many eyes you have good and bad right there ^^.

Another bad is to hurt others, even if it's unintentionally. No lies needed, just a few world said without you thinking about what it does to the person that hears it. What's easier, to think about what you are saying and who you are saying it too and how they will react to it or just blurting it out? A woman I know is an expert on this, she told a woman that had her 7th miscarriage just days before that she was pregnant and that she didn't want to keep the baby. You should have seen the pain on the face of the woman that couldn't carry a child long enough for it to survive. That's bad from where I see it.

To tell the truth all the time also makes you a bad person, think of that. If you are told a secret and you are asked to not tell, then you are asked about it, pushed to tell... telling the truth you are breaking the trust of the other person and you are hurting them. Picture that people are planning a secret surprise party and you find out about it. Imagine the person that's the party is for asking you if there will be a surprise party. As a person that always tells the truth you have to answer and ruin the hard work of the others. How about a situation where another persons life depends on you telling a lie. Would you or would you be a good person and tell the truth?

Life is not as easy as black and white, this or that, there is more to it.

Being bad is easy since you can follow your selfish greed and do what you want instead of what you should do. Being bad is easy because you don't have to think it though before you do it, you can act on any impulse you have. Being bad is easy because it's all about you and you don't have to bother with how others will feel about it.  

Answer 2

I think people have a naturally tendency to be more good/bad, so some people have a hard time lying (blushing, stuttering,...etc..), and others do it like it was just so natural. People get morals as they are growing up and it's difficult to say "Oh yeah, s***w this is, I am going to be bad as of right now" :). So, not a straight question really since everybody is different. :)