[Nique]

Recently I've become sort of interested, maybe a little obsessed, with the idea of self-image. I have always seen myself as a 'good person' and while I still hope that is true on some level I think that believing this as an inherit quality of myself has often led me to a form of confirmation bias where I believe what I'm doing is good becuase I am a 'good person'. Now, breaking away from that is depressing as hell becuase 'man, if I'm not good, what am I?' but it has motivated me to want to do good things becuase they are actually good and not becuase they confirm my self-image.

The issue with 'goodness' and trying to attach some specific meaning to it (or badness for that matter) is that all these definitions we give it are extremely context-dependent. It's not always good to be honest, it's not always good to be non-violent. There is a very general idea about those things being 'good' that usually works but I suppose in order to be truly good you have to be able to understand what's good within the context of the situation.

I guess what I'm saying is that Batman should kill The Joker.