Goodness: genuine or coerced?

March 31, 2012
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Man is essentially good, I observe.  It would be so easy to create havoc.

While a car is speeding, a walker could feign crossing.  That would cause the car to brake abruptly creating accidents.  But people don’t go on teasing speeding cars, although it would be so easy.

But more than goodness it must be because eventually people will be caught. They fear the consequence of such actions. So people may or may be not evil but they are surely scared of negative consequences.

If not for them, in traffic we would be hitting any other car or bike that annoyed us.  We don’t do it because one we would get caught and two because it would damage our own vehicle.

This is a thought that comes to me as I am on the road.

Thus goodness is less a choice and more a mandatory action.