Does it make one a better person...?

Question

if they want to see someone falling, but when it actually happens, they feel sorry for them?

Answer 1

I don't think so...I would hope that it would make them think about whether they really wanted that person to fall in the first place. Everyone gets what's coming to them because of their actions in life, and everyone is affected by unfair events in life.  

Answer 2

if you need to fall just to grow up so be it.

Answer 3

I think so because sometimes people need to fail so they can survive

Answer 4

No good person could wish the real falling of anyone!

Yet, I believe it is only human that we some times get so mad about people that we wish, just wish they would fall not in real but they would fall to our eyes (which is our liberation...).  When they do, if we feel sorry for them, it is because we really are good persons.  Finally....

Answer 5

Nothing we do makes us "good". We as human beings are totally depraved. The only thing we can do is believe in Jesus and be saved.

If you want to see someone fall, that's just human nature. Even if you feel sorry for them later, that doesn't erase the fact that you wanted them to fall.

Answer 6

Well, it makes them better than had they felt no remorse about it. It is human nature to sometimes wish for another to fall, but it is the mean side of human nature. To not feel sorry for one who had fallen would be kind of sinister.  

Answer 7

tricks of the trade. It makes their life seem more meaningful.

Like Im glad thats not me . Plus they hope to break you down so you will spend all your money on things at the mall and such.

Answer 8

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."  -- Bertrand Russell

Answer 9

Only action counts. Internal is worthless.

So, stop feeling sorry and start organizing the cushions under the fall.

Answer 10

...to me NO!!! nor do i feel sorry for the others...KARMA...

Answer 11

I don't know that it makes you a better person, but it DOES make you human.  I believe that it is human nature to want to do better than others (which is a less-negative way of saying see someone else failing/failing) and we tend to feel badly for others who are in a pinch.

Unfortunately, there are still a number of people who really DO want to see others fail, and they delight in it.  In my opinion, that is a terrible way to act and think, and Karma will bite you in the butt.

Answer 12

A person's character is decided, not by their words, their thoughts, nor by their feelings, but by their actions.

Answer 13

hahahaha! maybe the first time or two but after that I think their motives may be becoming a little twisted.

I have heard of wife beaters with that logic, so no it doesn't wash with me.

It depends on ones life experience I guess, or if they instigated it, or failed to warn.

Answer 14

No,  it doesn't make one better only for feeling sorry!  

It would be certainly much better if they lend a helping hand in their hour of need;  or help mitigate the pain...selflessly!