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Who gets to decide who is good and who is bad? From:Daniel.H
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March 28, 2006

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Peter Lipton
March 29, 2006 (changed March 29, 2006) Permalink

I think that 'decide' can mean two different things here. It can mean who creates the standard of good people and bad people. Or it can just mean who is a good judge of who is good and who is bad. My own view is that nobody creates the standard: what makes somebody good is what they do, not whether someone (even God) says they are good. But some people may be good at judging who is good and who is bad, though how we can tell who those people are is a tough question.

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