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Based only on the photo, select who is a good person
A
B
C
-Only A is a good person
-Only B is a good person
-Only C is a good person
-Only A & B are good people
-Only A & C are good people
-Only B & C are good people
-All of them are good people
-None of them are good
Shandris
(3,447 posts)You could answer 'None' and be right almost 98% of the time or so. It all depends on what you mean by 'good'.
That little nitpick aside though (and I don't believe you can select even 'decent' people simply from stills), I'll play and say all three are good people/none are good people (depending on your definition).
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I would not jump to any conclusion about those pictures without the context and relationships involved.
The problem of "good or bad" is also at issue because the value judgment is contingent and relative to my bias and the particulars of the situation. Useful, constructive, destructive and other terms come to mind and a moral presupposition is not necessary to evaluate that.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)To make a blanket, "isness" statement about a person is most often an error in any case.
It rests on the assumption that one act or interaction determines the entire character of a person and that does not usually apply in any personality.
I won't provide examples, but it is not easy to ascertain how that works and how generalizing affects our judgements and views.
HappyPlace
(568 posts)Nothing presents as a reason not to assume that each is a good person.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)sarisataka
(18,656 posts)and corrected
Thank you
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)sarisataka
(18,656 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)None are righteous. No, not one.
sarisataka
(18,656 posts)So I shall not cast the first stone
HappyPlace
(568 posts)Rosa Park is Baltimore County's first Asian office, that's good.
Middle shot is a young man modeling camo shorts, that's good.
Third picture is a man firing a handgun, wearing protective eye and ear wear, that's good.
The knee jerk stereotype reactions many would have against any of these is easy to imagine: bad cop, gang banger, gun nut.
sarisataka
(18,656 posts)I know any of them IRL. They could be walking saints or obnoxious bastards.
Yet many people (many who call themselves progressive) will judge the value of the person's life on such simple information.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)I'm the only one I'm absolutely certain about and I could be wrong.