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When Pain Changes Us: 7 Circumstances That Can Corrupt Goodness · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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  Speaker 1: Today's topic is on 7 circumstances that can turn good
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  Speaker 1: people bad. Good people are lucky. Many of them don't
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  Speaker 1: know that they are one unfortunate event away from becoming bad.
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  Speaker 1: Those who do know can fortify their goodness so that
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  Speaker 1: if unlucky circumstances arise, they won't be so quick to
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  Speaker 1: betray their principles. For those of you wondering what these
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  Speaker 1: circumstances are that can turn good people bad, we've come
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  Speaker 1: up with a list of seven. This is by no
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  Speaker 1: means a complete list, but it contains situations that usually
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  Speaker 1: result in the most moral casualties. For people that go
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  Speaker 1: down the wrong path, the path often starts at one
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  Speaker 1: of these causes. 1. Tragedy When tragedy strikes you or
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  Speaker 1: someone close to you, it's hard not to blame something
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  Speaker 1: or someone, even if no one was at fault. A
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  Speaker 1: person can then become angry at people that don't deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: And when a person sees him or herself as a
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  Speaker 1: victim of tragedy, they may feel justified in treating people
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  Speaker 1: who have not suffered like they have. When a person
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  Speaker 1: is in a less fortunate situation than everyone else, there's
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  Speaker 1: no measure too extreme to take. To a person in
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  Speaker 1: this situation, life becomes pure survival. Thus, they may rely
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  Speaker 1: on theft, assault, or worse, to acquire the resources that
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  Speaker 1: have been withheld from them. Reliance on anything, especially drugs,
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  Speaker 1: can make a person betray their morals to maintain their comfort.
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  Speaker 1: A person whose life revolves around getting their fix is
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing anything to accomplish this task. Addiction controls
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  Speaker 1: a person's life. 4. Moral superiority When you do a
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  Speaker 1: good deed, you may feel morally superior to many people,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps, for a time, you actually are. But those
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  Speaker 1: who feel morally superior often do not stay this way.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this is the norm. Moral licensing is a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenon that occurs when people who do good deeds feel
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  Speaker 1: justified doing bad deeds. Essentially, for many people, morality is
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  Speaker 1: a balancing act. So, if someone donates to a charity
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  Speaker 1: before passing a homeless person, they are more likely to
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  Speaker 1: ignore the beggar because they have already met their goodness quota. 5.
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  Speaker 1: Abuse Abuse is a vicious cycle. People who have been
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  Speaker 1: abused often abuse others in the future because that is
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  Speaker 1: all they know. Abuse can mean violence, manipulation, discrimination or
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  Speaker 1: any non-consensual exploitation of others to satisfy one's own desires. However,
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  Speaker 1: many people who are abused vow to never inflict onto
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  Speaker 1: others because of how intense their suffering was. These noble
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  Speaker 1: people break the cycle. Political and ethical causes are intoxicating.
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  Speaker 1: Every person wants to feel like they're contributing to the
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  Speaker 1: betterment of society, which means many of them will subscribe
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  Speaker 1: to ideologies that they identify as promoting the greater good. However,
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  Speaker 1: one person's greater good will always be in conflict with
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  Speaker 1: another person's. And how great is the good if it
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  Speaker 1: prevents you from seeing people as people and only obstacles
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  Speaker 1: standing in the way of your goal? People who are
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  Speaker 1: possessed by ideologies put a moral ideal above moral acts. 7.
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  Speaker 1: Affluence Poverty is one end of the moral degradation spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: Affluence is the other. Both circumstances can cause otherwise good
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  Speaker 1: people to become not so nice. When a person is affluent,
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  Speaker 1: meaning they have all the money they need, they might
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  Speaker 1: construe this as conceit instead of luck. Such people, believing
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  Speaker 1: they worked harder or more intelligently than others who do
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  Speaker 1: not have the same wealth, are liable to view every
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  Speaker 1: bad luck story as a cautionary tale about laziness. These
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  Speaker 1: people may have worked hard for their money, but circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: as always, has a larger share in their prosperity. People
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  Speaker 1: can and do go through all the above situations and
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  Speaker 1: remain good, but it's much harder to remain good when
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  Speaker 1: one's challenged in such ways. Being bad under these circumstances
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  Speaker 1: is easy. Being good takes courage to fall and not
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