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Originally Posted by sa1177
To say beung charitable makes someone a "good person" is just silly...so anyone who donates money to a couple of charities automatically becomes a "good person." That's a total farce IMO. How many criminals, crooks, embezzlers have donated money to charities? Are they all good people now?
Being good to those you care about (family, children etc) does not make you a "good person" but rather a good family man, father etc.
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I didn't say either automatically made him a good person. I said that those are qualities of a good person and are far more compelling to me than "my friend said he was sometimes rude."
Personally, I think people spuriously have decided Wallace is a bad person, and I think the verifiable evidence is more to the contrary, though I grant that it isn't conclusive.
Also, as a minor point, Wallace has given his
time as well as money. I don't think there are very many crooks and embezzlers who willingly give their time to the less fortunate. Again, though, I'm not saying that it automatically makes him a good person...but it's
highly creditable and weighs far more to the positive than the ocassional rudeness that you or your friend perceived weighs in the negative, in my opinion.