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What Does Being a Morally Good Person Look Like?

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I think it is important that people do their research on whatever topic they are wanting to study. Whether you're researching a topic out of pure curiosity, to become more educated, or for the sole purpose of completing a project and getting it over with so you can get a good grade... which may or may not be what I've done in the past ☺. Take for example my interest in the subject of morality and how that (is supposed to) play a role in society today. At first, I discovered a few nuggets of information that allowed me to create several opinions about how morality should be incorporated into society. However, very quickly, I ran out of ideas to discover. Everything I stumbled upon was either something I had already come to the conclusion of or repetitive information that was similar to a recent idea. However, eventually, one train of thought I found caught my eye.  Joseph Butler was an English theologian who is for his positive arguments that self-love and conscience are not at