Will Being a Good Person Guarantee a Secure Future?

 For centuries,  many people have felt that being a good person and moral person is the way to secure a future.  For example, people in the Orient, respected what the philsopher-teacher Confucious  (551-479 B.C.E.) said: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

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Many still believe that proper behavior  is the key to a secure future.  They try to be respectful, cultivate good manners, recognize their place in society, and maintain a good conscience.  "I always believed that If I was honest and sincere," says Linh, a woman in Vietnam,  "I would be blessed in return. " 

Some are motivated by their religious beliefs to do good. A man named Hsu-Yun, who lives in Taiwan, says, "I was taught that  a person's deeds while he still alive will determine whether he will enjoy endless bliss or suffer tormen after he dies."

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