kinda, but I want to see the result with no interest in their motivations. I don’t care if you’re a kindly gramma who bakes cookies for the neighbor kids if that is outweighed by your church donations that (unbeknownst to gramma) fund hate groups. Nor do I care if you spitefully convince your county/borough to designate your hated neighbor’s property a ‘wetland’ such that the land loses value and can’t be developed.
What you described is literally The Good Place’s scoring system. They even have a joke about losing points for eating a (really good) chicken sandwich, because buying the sandwich means you hate gay people. It is revealed pretty late in the show that nobody has actually gotten into the Good Place in a long time, because the modern world ensures all of your actions (no matter how altruistic) will basically always result in a net negative point gain. Basically, grandma altruistically baked cookies for the neighborhood kids, but the chocolate chips were made with unethically sourced cocoa, the fuel she used to make the cookies went towards polluting the environment, and she forgot that one of the neighborhood kids has celiacs and can’t eat gluten.
I disagree that the systems are the same. On the sandwich bit, yes, they might, but on the flip side they are opposite. The Good Place voided deeds done for the purpose of getting ‘points’, for example. Further, in The Good Place you lost points for doing things out of spite/malice/hate, and my system does not care.
In my system, as long as the result improves overall well being, it counts. Technically, a serial killer could have a really high score if they tortured and murdered… oh, say, people who order their underlings to cut costs such that those underlings demand faster delivery times such that delivery drivers stop trucks in the street thereby blocking traffic for everyone rather than waste the driver’s time by pulling into driveways. Corporate profits, baby! Fewer drivers needed! <-- the maniac killing people who are about to implement such a scheme would have a huge score.
kinda, but I want to see the result with no interest in their motivations. I don’t care if you’re a kindly gramma who bakes cookies for the neighbor kids if that is outweighed by your church donations that (unbeknownst to gramma) fund hate groups. Nor do I care if you spitefully convince your county/borough to designate your hated neighbor’s property a ‘wetland’ such that the land loses value and can’t be developed.
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What you described is literally The Good Place’s scoring system. They even have a joke about losing points for eating a (really good) chicken sandwich, because buying the sandwich means you hate gay people. It is revealed pretty late in the show that nobody has actually gotten into the Good Place in a long time, because the modern world ensures all of your actions (no matter how altruistic) will basically always result in a net negative point gain. Basically, grandma altruistically baked cookies for the neighborhood kids, but the chocolate chips were made with unethically sourced cocoa, the fuel she used to make the cookies went towards polluting the environment, and she forgot that one of the neighborhood kids has celiacs and can’t eat gluten.
I disagree that the systems are the same. On the sandwich bit, yes, they might, but on the flip side they are opposite. The Good Place voided deeds done for the purpose of getting ‘points’, for example. Further, in The Good Place you lost points for doing things out of spite/malice/hate, and my system does not care.
In my system, as long as the result improves overall well being, it counts. Technically, a serial killer could have a really high score if they tortured and murdered… oh, say, people who order their underlings to cut costs such that those underlings demand faster delivery times such that delivery drivers stop trucks in the street thereby blocking traffic for everyone rather than waste the driver’s time by pulling into driveways. Corporate profits, baby! Fewer drivers needed! <-- the maniac killing people who are about to implement such a scheme would have a huge score.