What makes a person good: Thoughts or Actions?

[Music Fiend]

Was having this debate with my brother this week about a dude he grew up with. Whether a persons thoughts or actions determine if they are good/bad people to keep around. Answer may seem obvious, but both sides can make a point

• Maybe you have a homie who's jealous of you and what you have, but check themselves and would never show or act on it
• You or your partner think about cheating often but never do and never would
• You have the ability to finesse someone and would do it in a heartbeat if it wasn't wrong by your morals

But then on the other hand... if someone shows their loyalty through actions time and time again, does it really matter how they feel?

 

[Worthless Loser]

I'd argue neither. What makes a good person is what's in their heart. Since nobody is perfect, everyone is subject to bad or negative thoughts. And since reputation and image matters to people, people may perform certain actions to project a good image & good reputation to reap a benefit when their thoughts are completely opposite of the actions they took.

But when you act from your heart, you're "thinking" and "acting" out based out of authenticity and genuineness. Which could be good or bad based on what's in your heart.

 

[010101]

life is a matter of action*

 

[SAINT]

I think of some of the craziest demonic shyt

I hope it’s the latter

 

[Doctor Wily]

Neither

 

[Remote]

What makes a person good?

Depends on the context

 

[TL15]

Thoughts lead to actions... unless you’re insane, bad actions begin with bad thoughts.

the ability to control your behavior is good. A bad thought my pass, but in order to control your behavior, a stronger good, thought blocks a bad action.


However, life isn’t really about good and bad thoughts, it’s all about decisions and consequences. We all have the ability to choose actions based on consequences and so if you don’t want bad consequences you choose different actions