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[givenofox]

I guess there's no way to ask this that doesn't sound like a philosophy major trying to do their thesis at the last second so...

There's a lot of hero types here. You rush in to help when something happens and don't even think about it. I'd say that makes you good people.

Do you (or all of us here, I guess) think it's possible, if someone really tries, to start being a good person? Even if you've done horrible things? Like really, really bad things. Does the reason you did them matter?

Or maybe we're just meant to be bad and trying to pretend otherwise.

[ ...wow this sounds so much more melodramatic than he intended. ]

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[sleepinglotus]

I believe people can change, yes. I also believe circumstance plays a large role in how people got to where they are.

[givenofox]

But maybe those circumstances just brought out who they really are?

[sleepinglotus]

There is someone from my world who grew up an orphan much like myself, but where I had a good friend to keep me from falling in despair, she didn't. She became a thief out of necessity, and was eventually found by someone who offered her shelter in exchange for doing things that ranged from illegal to immoral.

I met with her again here and when she was given time and space away from that individual she was actually capable of keeping out of trouble. I wouldn't call her a friend exactly but we're capable of getting along - something I couldn't see happening were we all still back home.

I think if she had been able to grow up in circumstances more similar to my own she would be a very different person.