Here are a few examples of important concepts youll learn from the show.
Being Good Is Something You Learn and Must Practice
What does it mean to be good?
Are some people just born bad seeds?
Basically, Eleanor (Kristen Bell) dies and wakes up in the afterlife.
Shes told that she lived an ethically sound life and that she made the cut for The Good Place.
But theres a problem: Eleanor has been mistaken for someone else and doesnt belong there.
She was a terrible person in life and belongs in the so-called Bad Place.
As Aristotle put it, your character is voluntary, so nobody is born good or bad.
You have to decide which you want to be.
Doing good deeds earns you a certain number of positive points, and doing bad things will subtract them.
Your point total when you die is what decides where youll go.
Seems fair, right?
To put that in perspective, her score is -4,008 and she needs to meet the average of 1,222,821.
It would take her a long time to get there but its one way to do it.
At least, it would be if it worked.
The situation brings up a valid question: are good things done for selfish reasons still good things?
She did a lot of good, but isshegood?
Its something to consider yourself as you go about your day.
Thats because good and bad are subjective, making them almost impossible to define.
But there are always variables in the real world.
What if the one person is a child?
What if the five people are dressed as Nazis?
What if you know one of the people?
Or, what if you sit back and do nothing?
Is it good to be a bystander?
There is no morally sound answer to the thought experiment.
In fact, there are rarely, if ever, morally sound answers in the real world.
Im sure some of you are thinking, No, some things are just wrong.
But if you are, youre missing the point.
