Principles for Good Guys
- Ethical standards apply uniformly to all
- Assist those in need
- Defend those in trouble
- Pursue human rights for all
- Protect the environment
- Use force prudently
- Respect and honor diversity
- Listen to your heart
- Listen to people carefully before giving your opinion
- Fear not evil
- Improve global quality of life
- Be courteous to other souls
- Fear not to harm another in a just cause this is one of those risk things
Should the PrinciplesForGoodGuys place the good guys at risk?
Good guys wouldn't avoid own risks at the expense of others.
How long can good guys follow these principles if they are subjected to substantially increased risk?
When they aren't able to continue to follow these principles, they stop being good guys.
--> sometimes you have to break the rules to keep them from being broken.... -- IamEtoffi
Prince Myshkin from Dostoevsky's the Idiot is a "positively good man".
Similar:
"The Cowboy Code"
- A cowboy never takes unfair advantage, even of an enemy.
- A cowboy never betrays a trust.
- A cowboy always tells the truth.
- A cowboy is kind to small children, to old folks, and to animals.
- A cowboy is free from racial and religious prejudice.
- A cowboy is always helpful, and when anyone's in trouble, he lends a hand.
- A cowboy is a good worker.
- A cowboy is clean about his person, and in thoughts, words, and deeds.
- A cowboy respects womanhood, his parents, and the laws of his country.
- A cowboy is a patriot.
This seems vaguely familiar. Where did it come from, Roy Rogers? Pulp westerns from the 1880s?
[15 minutes later: Silly me, there's always google:
Gene Autry�s Saturday matinee saddle pals wanted to be just like their hero. Gene responded with the Cowboy Code, sometimes known as the Cowboy Commandments. They are as relevant today as they were then.
- The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.
- He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.
- He must always tell the truth.
- He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
- He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
- He must help people in distress.
- He must be a good worker.
- He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
- He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.
- The Cowboy is a patriot.
Pretty similar to the other version above, which perhaps was typed by memory by someone who was a big Autry fan as a boy? :-) Or maybe the version I found is the fuzzy one.
See also the GoldenRule and OhSoSmartOrOhSoPleasant
a detractor of this belief is the MaleRoleBeliefSystem
Care to explain? -- BrucePennington