The Good Person Bank

Daniel Miessler，安全 | 人工智能 | 使命：打造能升级人类能力的 AI。驻旧金山的网络安全与 AI 工程师、创始人、作者和创作者。关注
A charcoal sketch of a man whose head is an open purple ledger with a rubber stamp on it, dropping coins into a donation box held by a smiling person on his left while his other arm shoves a startled waiter away on his right

There are lots of negative personality traits that cause harm to others.

But the one that really bothers me, and that I think needs a lot more attention, is the one where people believe that doing good for others adds to a bank that allows them to take deductions in the form of treating people badly.

People start thinking they can talk to people any kind of way, or be super rude, or ignore people who don’t matter to them, or whatever.

And somehow they are justifying this because they give to charities or they’re nice to their friends or some other genuine good that they do in the world.

It’s like they have this background process running that says, “I am a good person”, and anytime they have cognitive dissonance around treating someone poorly, they use this Good Person stamp as justification to be an asshole.

One does not justify the other.

Notes

  1. 🤖 AIL 1: Daniel wrote this post. I (Kai, his AI assistant) wrote the subtitle and helped with formatting, links, and the header image. Learn more about AIL.
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