• Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    Good acts do not make a good person. Plenty of billionaires have done good things, but they don’t even come close to outweighing the bad.

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      1 year ago

      I love a quote I read once in a thing about alignment. “If you fix twenty neighbor’s roofs, you’re Jimmy the Helpful Thatcher. But if you eat the neighbor’s daughter, you’re Jimmy the Cannibal, and no amount of additional carpentry assistance will change that.”

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Traditionally this joke is:

        Bad Scottish Accent Engaged

        I build 200 ships, do they call me Seamus the shipbuilder? Nae.

        I paint 100 houses, do they call me Seamus the Housepainter? Nae.

        But ye fuck one sheep…

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      1 year ago

      A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.