Let's Talk About Population Control

[wufwugy]

As it stands, all you've said is... here is a new word... it means everything bad that happens is the result of someone trying to make good happen, and all the good things, too. The word means all the things are 'cause people are trying to be good! They're just really bad at it, sometimes.

It seems you're thinking in terms of an overarching assessment of results. The base assumption is not concerned with what the outcome is; it is just an assumption that people want more good and less bad. This is for each decision; it's not a plan or anything. "Good" is 100% arbitrary.

If people are always deciding for more good, it necessarily means that even the decisions that look objectively poor to others are still good to that person. IIRC it was Gary Becker who first popularized this idea, using the heroin addict example.

[MadMojoMonkey]

It seems you're thinking in terms of an overarching assessment of results. The base assumption is not concerned with what the outcome is; it is just an assumption that people want more good and less bad. This is for each decision; it's not a plan or anything. "Good" is 100% arbitrary.

If people are always deciding for more good, it necessarily means that even the decisions that look objectively poor to others are still good to that person. IIRC it was Gary Becker who first popularized this idea, using the heroin addict example.

@bold... these sentences are meaningless when the meaning of "good" is left to each individual to define however they want and to consider whatever time-scale they like. This puts the definition in a spot where it has a subjective meaning for each perspective on each situation. There is no "truth" in the word when it bears all meanings.