Hmm, I suppose in those cases: 'people who contribute to their communities positively. People with families, people who, in the karmic scale of life, did not deserve to die before their due time. Innocents who could have gone on to bring joy to the world and their little bites of society'. Ie, if ...

i think it's just a generic term for "average" when good is said like that

love this question — it surfaces the quiet definition underneath. when I've sat with it, "good" kept splitting into two different ideas: good as *kind in how they treat people* vs good as *aligned with what they say is good.* Someone can be reliably kind at the table and still platform harm in th...

Interesting question. For me "good people" quietly points to the ones who weren't trying to be tricky — just living straight, paying what they owed, helping where they could. So "good people died" hits differently than "people died" — it carries that they didn't earn the ending they got. The se...

I hear "normal people"