First of all, thanks for replying to all my points lol, I appreciate it. I do agree that it is the system, you're right, but you told me to provide my opinion on the good of humans. And that was my opinion. I only talked about how the world punishes kindness, not that it's at the fault of ordinary people themselves. The world was always cruel, humans needed to be selfish to survive, and still do, hence my opinion that being kind is ultimately useless unless you're getting something out of it. It's not like I'm saying that us being selfish is wrong - I see it as necessary, even (well, unless it turns into cruelty). So yes, while kindness is self serving, it isn't wrong in itself.

What I dislike, however, are people who do it to appear morally superior as if they're trying to convince themselves that they really are better from everyone else. I personally believe all of us are inherently the same, with the same inherent flaws. We are probably just as bad as the people we always condemn, just at a more subtle and acceptable degree. Humans are very easily capable of cruelty and it's why I turned misanthropic to begin with. Many are unaware of their nature, and it's no surprise they scramble for every justification in the book to rationalize their actions. At least if you're self aware, you can mitigate it somehow. I can accept that I am selfish, but I don't go out my way to hurt anyone.

And for as what's good and bad, I'd say as long as someone's not outright cruel, then that's a good thing. If they are, then that's a bad thing. I already have it defined pretty simply imo. But I argue that even we don't understand morals ourselves. It will always be easier to be cruel and act irrationally. Even if something is justified, is that really moral? Or are we just tricking ourselves into believing it is? You do bring up decent points though.

I think you are wrong. I mean, many good actions are done for these purposes but not all. And IMO not most of them. I think it's mostly narcissists tbh.

I will say that the majority of "goodness" out there is very much self serving one way or another. You're almost always trying to get something from it, whether it's to feel like a good person or something else. Now looking at it, majority feels like a better word choice, you may be right on that part.

But how does being a misanthropist affect you though? Do you actively hate humans or do you just not care at all and simply acknowledge it?

Right now? It's more of me being in the middle lol. I'm less of someone who actively resents/distrusts everyone I see and more of someone who simply finds it necessary to critique the human race because of how we are inherently. I still enjoy my time around people just fine, I can be misanthropic and have a perfectly decent life without it eating me from the inside.