twenty-six days before

People are basically good.

I came to this conclusion some time ago, when I thought about why people did things. People’s motives to do something are generally to satisfy some urge, or for some specific reason, which, on the whole, is ‘good’.

We eat because we are hungry; it does something good for us.

We get into the car and drive to the shops because we need bread; we eat it, it helps our body and therefore is a good action for us.

We speed on the way to the shops not because we want to cause damage or harm to ourselves (and therefore others), but because it is often tedious to go slow, and speeding gets us there quicker - which is in turn ‘good’ for us.

The result of our actions – actions which, whether we consciously intend for them to be good or just are ‘good’ (as above) -  are then determined by extraneous forces which may alter them to become “bad” or undesired, either for ourselves or as perceived by others.

Such as, hitting and killing a bird (or dog, or person…) whilst on our way to the shops to buy bread for ourselves to eat.

I won’t call this notion which prompted our actions as a good intent, as such, but rather just a simple ‘goodness’ which drives most of our actions, despite whatever the outcome may be.

Moonbeam (MB)