Monday, October 24, 2011
As I've been saying all along...
I ran across a quote from the Bible that says what I've been trying to tell people my entire life:
James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
It's not enough to refrain from taking harmful action. It's not enough to follow Asimov's Laws of Robotics and not cause harm by failing to take action. To be a good person, you MUST take virtuous actions. To be a good person, you MUST take ALL virtuous actions that you know perfectly well that you SHOULD be doing.
By that definition, 99% of people are NOT good. What about YOU, are you in the 99% or the 1%? And if the former... what are you going to do about it?
James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
It's not enough to refrain from taking harmful action. It's not enough to follow Asimov's Laws of Robotics and not cause harm by failing to take action. To be a good person, you MUST take virtuous actions. To be a good person, you MUST take ALL virtuous actions that you know perfectly well that you SHOULD be doing.
By that definition, 99% of people are NOT good. What about YOU, are you in the 99% or the 1%? And if the former... what are you going to do about it?
