Goodness Definition

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What is goodness? Truthfully, I don’t know. When you Google “define good,” the answer is simply “that which is morally right; righteousness.” The concept seems easy to understand when you state just the definition. If you evaluate all of the people you know, are they always good? Are they good some of the time? After asking myself these questions, I thought “Wow! The people I call my friends aren’t consistently good people.”
The definition of goodness varies. Everyone has different moral standards and views on the world. To some, babies might be the most pure and righteous beings in the world. Others might think that babies are incredibly selfish but are later taught to be good. I think that babies don’t know better.
To me, the qualities of

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