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Why We Choose Wrong
00:06:38
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| Obviously, the world would be a much better place if each of us usually did the right thing. | |
| So the question is, why don't we? | |
| Well, one reason I'm afraid is because it's usually a lot easier to do the wrong thing. | |
| This is my favorite part. | |
| Watch this. | |
| He's gonna jump out of the closet with a knife. | |
| Shhh! | |
| *Screaming* | |
| Pardon. | |
| Excuse me. | |
| Excuse me. | |
| Oh, I'm so sorry. | |
| Excuse me. | |
| Pardon me. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Oh, gosh. | |
| Oh, I'm sorry. | |
| All right. | |
| I'm not saying that people want to be bad or that they wake up in the morning with evil thoughts like this. | |
| Hmm. | |
| I wonder what disgusting and antisocial thing I can do today. | |
| Hmm. | |
| I think I'll start with Mrs. O'Malley. | |
| *laughter* | |
| Okay, obviously, few people start off their day planning such evil. | |
| But then again, it's also pretty rare when someone wakes up preoccupied with goodness. | |
| Another day to help the sick and needy. | |
| You know, goodness just doesn't have a great reputation. | |
| In fact, it often turns people off. | |
| And the reason is simple. | |
| A lot of people think that being good means being a goody-goody. | |
| Hey, guys, I've got a great idea. | |
| You know, we were looking for a place to have Maggie's baby shower? | |
| Yeah? | |
| We could have it right here in the office. | |
| Well, that is a great idea. | |
| Hey, we could do it in the conference room over a Thursday lunch. | |
| Yeah, no one's going to be using it this week. | |
| Now, wait a minute. | |
| You can't do that. | |
| The conference room is not supposed to be used for social functions. | |
| It's against the rules. | |
| Hey, everyone's going to come. | |
| It's going to be solo fun. | |
| You know. | |
| It's only fun until someone gets an eye. | |
| I can make a jello mold or something like that. | |
| Trisha could bring the cake. | |
| Oh, what about gifts? | |
| You know, I wonder if we should do pink or blue. | |
| Oh, God, you know, in the 90s, it doesn't really matter anymore. | |
| This guy's not trying to do good. | |
| He's trying to be a goody-goody. | |
| Someone who's a brown-noser, a non-questioning order taker, and a major pain in the ass. | |
| Hey, that coffee's for employees only. | |
| There's another bad rap on goodness, and that is that a lot of people believe that being honest puts them at a disadvantage. | |
| All right, you have one hour to complete your test. | |
| You can turn your papers over now. | |
| Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic. | |
| Torek, ionic, carousel. | |
| Serious. | |
| See. | |
| That's right. | |
| None of the above. | |
| Thanks. | |
| Hey, I want to be honest, but what's the point? | |
| The kids who are cheating seem to be getting ahead, so if I have to cheat a little, I'm going to do it. | |
| That's right. | |
| And my son is going to get into the best darn college he can, no matter what. | |
| But there's a lot of competition out there. | |
| You do what you got to do. | |
| Come on. | |
| Who's he really going to hurt anyway? | |
| The question is: if you get used to cheating, when exactly do you plan on stopping? | |
| At what point do you think you're going to be able to turn it off? | |
| Oh, I really hope you know what you're doing, Doctor. | |
| I've never had surgery. | |
| I promise you, I'm going to do my very best. | |
| But to tell you the truth, I had to cheat my way through medical school. | |
| As a matter of fact, it was the only way I could pass this procedure. | |
| I couldn't make Edzert Taylor. | |
| Nurse, I don't need C-clamps and a lot of gauze. | |
| This attitude of, hey, everybody cheats, so why don't I, is very common. | |
| In fact, no matter how bad people's actions are, they find some way to justify what they've done. | |
| Honey, do you really think we should take all these things? | |
| Come on, doesn't everybody? | |
| Well, not this much. | |
| Hotels expect people to take things. | |
| They just build it into the cost of the room. | |
| Maybe an ashtray. | |
| That's a pretty one. | |
| Also, it's nice advertising for the hotel when people see these things in our home. | |
| George, look! | |
| There's a man in the parking lot. | |
| He's in your car. | |
| What? | |
| What the hell are you doing? | |
| What do you think I'm doing, twinning anti? | |
| You're stealing my car! | |
| Well, look at it this way. | |
| Insurance companies expect cars to be ripped off. | |
| They build it into the cost of the premium. | |
| I can't afford the black car like this. | |
| You're a rich businessman. | |
| Just go buy another one. | |
| Besides, everybody does it. | |
| People can rationalize away almost anything. | |
| If only we were as imaginative about doing good as we are about rationalizing bad. | |
| But the problem is that doing good seldom brings the instant gratification that doing bad often does. | |
| This is Matthew. | |
| He's come here to buy a VCR. | |
| Well, he wishes he could buy the fancy model with all those great features, but all he can really afford is the 393. | |
| And that's just what he's paying for. | |
| But then something happened. | |
| Instead of bringing Matthew the 393, the clerk made a mistake and handed Matthew the top-of-the-line model, the R5UC. | |
| Babe, I can't believe it. | |
| You could never afford this. | |
| The R5 UC, forehead digital audio tracking, flying a race, and you the commander remote. | |
| Guys, I want hi-fi stereo sound as much as anyone, but you can't just walk out with something you didn't pay for. | |
| Come on, Bab, come on. | |
| Look at this place. | |
| It's huge. | |
| Just live with it. | |
| It's not going to make any difference. | |
| Anyway, it was their mistake. | |
| But it's wrong. | |
| It's no different than stealing. | |
| Don't listen to him. | |
| He's stupid. | |
| He's a pinhead. | |
| You feel fine. | |
| Fine. | |
| Fine, fine, fine. | |
| Let's go. | |
| I'm bringing it back. | |
| No! | |
| No! | |
| You are out the door! | |
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Will To Do Good And Bad
00:00:41
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| He was feeling great. | |
| I can't believe he messed it up. | |
| Yeah, the bad thing does feel good, but just for that moment. | |
| On the other hand, when you do good, you'll feel good for a very long time afterward. | |
| Okay, so now we've seen some reasons why people don't do more good. | |
| But there are other obstacles to goodness that are simply part of our human nature. | |
| The most important being, are you ready? | |
| We're not basically good. | |
| Now, we're not basically bad either. | |
| But in every one of us, there is a will to do good and a will to do bad. | |
| Knowing that we all have these two opposing wills can be unbelievably helpful to us. | |
| It tells us that bad thoughts are normal. | |