We can look honestly at ourselves, see all the obvious weakness and immorality that need not be there and imagine the better people we could be. Others have devoted their lives to causes for the greater good and achieved great things through hard work - their actions make it more likely that they are 'good' people.
I agree the absolute may be unachievable, but we need not concern ourselves with that when we are so ridiculously far away.
devoted their lives to causes for the greater good
Norman Borlaug - good?
I couldn't say by glancing at his wikipedia page. Do you think so?
I can't hold a conversation with you about a scientist you haven't even heard of, who had an outsized impact on the human population , food production, the environment, in the past century, and whom your only reference is Wikipedia. Sorry. I thought you'd have heard of him.
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