The Good Person Test Have You Ever Looked At Another Person Who Is Not Your Spouse With Lust
True to form, the Good Person Test goes back to thought-crime because it cannot address actual moral behavior directly. A problem which persists likely because the script itself has no moral sense and operates out of a sadistic, fake, and uncorroborated "moral authority." It generates its guilt complex by redefining otherwise normal thoughts as being equivalent to the acts they represent. Just like the people who cannot distinguish between thought and act, this test is sociopathic. The script here asks, "Have you ever looked at another person and lusted after them?" From here the script waits for a, "Yes," answer, people who hear a, "No," look at the respondent funny like they can't believe what they're hearing. There's a reason for this! Perhaps it's because anyone of sexual maturity who answers this question in the negative is unhealthy? Perhaps that should inform us as to exactly what kind of a question this one is. "Then you have already committed adultery in your heart." I'd simply call this part of the script juvenile, if it wasn't so transparently obvious this is another con game using emotional blackmail. It would be simply immature, except the people who wrote this script know exactly what they're doing and they're trying to claim guilt atop a facet of human nature. They cannot readily hook people on their actions because social mores actually inform and restrain actions, so the script falls back on trying to get into a person's head. This is another example of thought-crime. "Feel bad because you find other people attractive," it yells, "because I said so!" Just ask them to demonstrate why attraction is immoral... The obvious answer to this one is just like the "anger" question, "So what?" Ideally what makes morality and makes our world tick is how people behave, it's not what their lizard-brain jumps out and informs them; the fact that we can lead sane, efficient lives in spite of all this adultery going on in our hearts tells us that weirdly, "committing adultery in one's heart" has absolutely no moral effect on the world. The logical end of this particular statement that you are already condemned for adultery if you simply look at someone else with lust. Yes? You might as well have gone and drawn them away into the bushes and actually gotten some bang for your punishment-after all, according to The Good Person Test there is no moral difference between the impulse and acting it out. With that moral equivalence in place there's no reason to suppress the behavior. Another example of how sociopathic this test becomes when addressed with reasonable scrutiny. It's probably apparent by now that this moral blindness is rampant in this test to determine the goodness of a person. The test itself isn't just amoral: it's immoral-it goes out of its way to conflate morally divorced concepts just to make its sale; when it does this it goes the further step which is to attempt to convict the person of the worse guilt on the basis of the weak or nonexistent one. And in cases like this one, it uses a natural, healthy, human reaction in order to do it. Treating healthy human beings as if what they feel is just as bad as if they acted upon it does harm to the positive outlook of a psyche on the world. This sort of abuse is nearly irreconcilable. People who use the Good Person Test are deliberately inflicting injury on credulous and social individuals who stop to listen to them. This part of the test in particular is designed to do harm. People who use the Good Person Test and make it to this part have already gone through numerous morally blind statements and they've made gross, false accusations veiled in the "admission" of the audience before they reach this one. With this one they play on the psychosexual social mores that have insinuated this sort of behavior into our society already-poking and prodding for a weakness-and they've found one of the best ones: making people feel immoral because of healthy behavior. When a person makes something healthy into something to feel guilty over they themselves are guilty of poisoning our social experience. And not one of us should hold them blameless. PREVIOUS: "Have you ever stolen anything, even something insignificant?" INDEX: The Good Person Test is immoral
