What makes you think you are a good person?

I do my best to give more to the world than I take away. If you are my friend, I am always there for you. Hell, I'm exhausted now because I had to help a good friend through a really heavy couple of days.

I will treat you with honesty, and give you my respect from the start. Other people will make you earn it, I'll give it to you immediately and let you maintain it. If you need it more than I do, I'll give you the shirt off my back.

Basically, I just treat others as I'd like to be treated myself. With compassion for another human being and an open heart. And patience when necessary, because none of us are angels. We all fuck up sometimes. I've had friends that stole $100 from me, but I knew the guy for years. His good aspects outweighed his flaws. Forgave him like it never happened, because he would have done the same for me.

I dunno, once you strip away all the cultural barriers and political bullshit and whatnot, we're all just one race sharing one fucking planet, so we might as well just try to fucking get along.

I fucking hate how the world works now. It's fucking wrong, you can't fucking eat money. Why the fuck do we have to fuck the brown folks over for their oil, for example? Shit, they're in a fucking desert, and we have an abundance of food and water, grains, etc. More than we could ever eat. Why not just trade them for it? Everybody has what they need. When you look at how a lot of the elements that the human race as a whole needs for existence, and how they're all spread across the planet, each nation having their troves, it seems pretty obvious that the ideal solution would be to trade with each other fairly and cooperate.

Like WTF? This isn't fucking rocket science.

And you know? In some ways Reddit helped teach me this. The act of conversing casually with people from all over the globe, from all walks of life, well, it helped me to realize that once you strip away all the "differences", we're all just fucking people, laughing at the same stupid stuff, enjoying the same movies, just trying to fucking chill while our insane governments and/or religious leaders keep trying to get us all fucking killed.

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