HERE IS WHY IT’S BAD TO BE GOOD 👇

One of the things that make people to describe me as an atheist is when I question the definition of "good". When I ask them, what makes good to be good and bad to be bad?

In their confusion, they will tell me about conscience and how you know when you do good and how you know when you do bad.

However, I have a scientifically proven evidence that conscience does not exist in our understanding of it because conscience is just a store of what we were taught. For instance, Muslims were taught that killing infidels is the right thing, so they are comfortable with Boko Haram.

In the recent times We have seen our own brothers, our own CHRISTIAN BROTHERS rejoice over the killing of security agents in South East and make fun of it. They even justify the killing of fellow Igbos whom they term efulefus and saboteurs. In fact, one of our childhood friends had wished that my sister be declared a saboteur publicly, so she will do the killing by herself.
Are you saying that they don’t have consciences? No, they do, it’s just that their consciences have been modified according to Nnamdi Kanu’s new indoctrination and their consciences has now defined killing of saboteurs as GOOD and killing of IPOB members as bad.

It’s not very different from the way your conscience is at home with the death of witches and those considered "bad" men.

So, conscience is a store in your memory bank where the things you were taught about good or bad are stored. A formidable and consistent indoctrination can alter it in a twinkle of an eye.

So, again, goodness is an ILLUSION. This is because we do not understand what it is and what it is not. What is good in Enugu might be bad in Florida and what is bad in Florida might be the symbol of goodness in Soweto. In trying describe being good poetically, I wrote this poem in 2018 👇

If "goodness" is an illusion, what about humanity? And how does being a humane person differentiate one from being a good person?

A humane person is a progress minded person who wants his brother to prosper as he himself is prospering. In other words, he is one who wants to see his neighbor happy as himself, healthy as himself and as successful as himself.

A good person is one who wants things done the RIGHT WAY. It doesn’t matter who is hurt, it doesn’t matter who it affects, it doesn’t even matter if it affects him too, what has to be done must be done no matter what. I used to be like this shaaaa.

The major difference between the two is that while humane people can do anything, including "sin" and breaking the law to give themselves and their fellow humans and better life, "good" people can do anything to protect the laws, rules and regulations, even if it involves hurting themselves and their fellow humans in the process.

So, the believers in humanity are completely in a different world with those we term good in our society. Little wonder why the first set of people whom we may see as sinful are the ones that are successful while the good holy ones die struggling?

So, how does being "good" set someone back such that his "joys" are what I described in that 2018 poem?

The universe is a place where there are varieties of things and uniqueness of being. There are a lot of varieties of things and each variety is unique. Automatically, what works for one will not work for another.

Goodness as defined by our culture, religion, society, etc forces everyone to behave in a certain kind of way according to the rules it set for itself. Those who obey these rules at all costs are "GOOD", those who don’t are "BAD".

In a situation where everyone is struggling to live their lives in that certain kind of way that is approved to be good, they will eventually find out that it is never going to work for them.
Then a few people will realize their uniqueness and disobey the order. With time, they will start being successful.
As time goes on, more and more people disobey and start succeeding. By the time the culture, religion or society accepts that what they are doing is no longer a sin and many troop into it, they will not be successful because they are not the same with those who "sinned".

For instance, in the days of yore, education was a sin for our African Traditional Religion.
By the time we accepted it, school don turn to scam 😁

However, the real point here is that the desire to be good in the sense of the society which forces us to tailor our lives in the way the society sees us is what restricts us from giving life the best shot, restricts us from doing things that are ordinarily harmless and would lead us to success but the society frowns at them. It cages us and prevents us from blooming

In the worse case scenario, we get frustrated when the rewards that were promised good people doesn’t get to us, leading us to becoming wicked and inhuman. That’s why you see more wicked people amongst charismatics, deeper life and other extreme religious people.

But I have a small passage from the Bible for you 👇 Ecclesiastes 8:12-14

Now, I did not say that you should stop being a good person or stop considering what the society will say...
Asikwana na Zoba si. Isi na m si, aka m adiro ya.

I am just a low budget Philosopher thinking out loud.