Goodness is a man-made concept created to judge a person by their values and actions. We strive to be good people yet without a true understanding of what it means to in fact be good. According to the Oxford dictionary to be ‘good’ means to be ‘desired or approved of’. Therefore, goodness is simply a trait that makes you likable and so the belief that someone is good can change depending on who is being asked.  However, when you think of someone who is ‘good’, you picture a person with integrity, while being kind and honorable. And who goes out of their way to please others. Bill Gates is famously seen as a ‘good person’: he is very charismatic. And, despite profiting hugely on his computers, he gave most of his wealth away. This amounted to $35 billion dollars. He appeals to us. Therefore, goodness is a subjective word to describe something that pleases human beings and is more a narcissistic concept. On the other hand, Bill Gates also dropped out of college and was accused of building his company of the back of other people’s ideas. Is that ‘good’? And if you do something considered bad but your ‘good’ actions outweigh those bad actions, are you still ‘good’?