What is good?

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That which reflects the nature of the underlying teological grounding and/or source of reality, generally referred to by theologians as "God".

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Chocolate

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Dogs

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Good is a 4 letter word in the English language. It is descendent from the proto-germanic *gōdaz, which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (To unite or join).

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Toyota Camry

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Rust Programming Language

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An engrossing novel, whiskey on the rocks, and crackling fireplace.

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Things we decide are good

Will resolve multiple choice Close date updated to 2022-06-24 11:59 pm Ignore that; i extended the close date just so I could add more manna to the ante

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You should add this to your philosophy questions group! https://manifold.markets/group/philosophy/questions

I would have chosen Conflux's answer. Poor Conflux!

@EnopoletusHarding I might’ve been biased a little (i think sometimes we decide things are good when they aren’t actually). But I think ‘twas self referential in a way that it didn’t seem definite enough as a claim. (Whereas “dogs are good” is a claim.)

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That which reflects the nature of the underlying teological grounding and/or source of reality, generally referred to by theologians as "God".

+10 for most specific/definitional /meaningful answer

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Dogs

+2. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Things we decide are good

I don’t think this is right, or it needs to be developed into a better answer. (Hard to tell if the meaning is “good is arbitrary/just a label” or “societies develop their concept of what’s ___” ) +0

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An engrossing novel, whiskey on the rocks, and crackling fireplace.

Little do you know—I’m of the prohibition party. I kid. Hmm. More subjective and less universal, so I’ll give it a +.5

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Chocolate

+3 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food…. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.

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Rust Programming Language

sadly I only know ocaml, ☕️ and 🐍. Seems like it has a track record of being ‘most loved programming language’ on the stackoverflow. might eat my words if rust is responsible for any ai apocalypse +.5

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Toyota Camry

ah, my childhood vehicle. +.5

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Good is a 4 letter word in the English language. It is descendent from the proto-germanic *gōdaz, which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (To unite or join).

Begrudging +2

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Things we decide are good

@Conflux This is a step towards an answer, but not the answer.

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Dogs

@Undox No theyre bad.

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That which reflects the nature of the underlying teological grounding and/or source of reality, generally referred to by theologians as "God".

(Maybe “I’ve done something like that a lot” would be a more accurate statement)

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That which reflects the nature of the underlying teological grounding and/or source of reality, generally referred to by theologians as "God".

I’ve done that a lot 😅. I think the last time was when I heard of the word “Tetragrammaton” once and then went around talking to friends referring to something called a “tetragrammon”(not a thing).