Does there exist, a person who fits this criteria:
1. Possesses power (Be it from wealth, social status, occupation)
2. Is an altruist and person of principle.
3. Has examples of standing against powerful men, for the public interest.
Not so sure if such a person exists.. As far as I can see, the "elites" who run things are granted blind trust by the public. Many are honest, and some aren't. The honest one's done't really go out of their way to stand against the dishonest ones.
What I'm looking for, are examples of peer pressure at the elite social level.. People "policing their own", as it were. The same way the middle/lower class shames their own every day, and even acts against their own, for various crimes.
It doesn't count if they condemn their own "after" they're caught.
I'll give one example: A rabbi caught a second rabbi abusing a child. The first rabbi went to the police. The entire community rallied against the first rabbi, for various very real concerns about their safety and how this would look to the world at large, but the rabbi stood firm, even as his own community turned on him. His principles were more important then the personal costs.
That's what I'm looking for. Evidence of important people putting principle ahead of their own self interest, to oppose other important people.
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Re: Does a good person exist?
Jordan B Peterson (an answer I post knowing obviously that there could likely be people who mock me for this)
Tenured university professor, turned very public figure with a bestselling book. Check.
From everything I've seen he's a flawed man like everyone else but he's a man of good character with a genuine interest in helping people, and he's spent his clinical practice doing just that and written a book for those exact reasons. Common comments from people who meet him was that following him and his content allowed them to either vastly improve their lives, or pulled them away from the fringes of the far left or far right.
He's also a man who firmly argues his principles, he's spent years teaching and writing about the horrors of the twentieth century from the far right and far left and will condemn either in no uncertain terms unapologetically, and he rose to prominence for his defense of free speech. His principled stance on individualism is something he unapologetically holds to against the identitarians on either side as well.
The dude took a very personal risk in standing up to Bill C-16 in Canada, professionally and socially, was willing to go to jail for his convictions, showed up at the Canadian senate to argue his positions against the legislators of his country, and took the very serious risk of being characterized in the public domain as a hateful bigot, which I'm glad to say is not the case given his rise to popularity, but he still suffers the slings and arrows of the media establishment repeatedly lying about him and mischaracterizing him in some of the most appalling ways I've ever seen them do to anyone really.
It'll be an honor to meet him in two days.
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And if we're not speaking solely about the modern day, the most compelling and obvious answer for me to give as a Christian is Jesus... another thing that could potentially bring me mockery on here but idgaf
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Shadilay my brothers and sisters. With any luck we will throw off the shackles of normie oppression. We have nothing to lose but our chains! Praise Kek!
THE MOTTO IS "IN KEK WE TRUST"
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Re: Re: Re: Does a good person exist?
FFS, when I started going through it at the beginning I thought it was a good list... but as soon as I hit #3 I lost my shit tbh
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Shadilay my brothers and sisters. With any luck we will throw off the shackles of normie oppression. We have nothing to lose but our chains! Praise Kek!
THE MOTTO IS "IN KEK WE TRUST"
Technically he did grant loads of people eternal peace.
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That top ten is brilliant a fictional character and Michael Jackson, as for the prophet M, clearly, you all have not been reading ennin's extremely informative thread.
Muhammad can teach us all how to peacefully torture poets who say bad things about us to death.
Oh, and need some treasure from a Jew? Muhammad's got you covered! You burn that motherf*cker with fire till he talks.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
Good is a state of being, although good intentions are what human beings struggle with. Humans have the ability to be good but things are not so simple. External forces make being constantly good more of a moment to moment occurrence. We must all strive to reach enlightenment! We can't say there are good people because that is wrong, it's just a state of mind. It follows that, good is what we hope to achieve in a chaotic world.
With his comments against the concept of systemic racism, I'm not surprised.
I also didn't know he existed until you mentioned him, so thanks for that. Of course, the mainstream media won't touch him.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I think this all depends in what's your concept of personal power, Jesus technically only had a bunch of personal followers in his (first) lifetime. It's difficult to pin point exactly where personal benefit begins for specific people, as for example Evo Morales did good stuff for his country, but we will probably only know the true extent of his actions on many areas until well after he's gone.
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