# You Are (Probably) Not a Good Person **URL:** **By** Christian Miller, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell **Published:** July 17, 2020 --- Christian Miller joins the show to talk about how most people have a self-inflated view of how good they actually are. Most people think of themselves as decent human beings. We also generally think our friends and family members are decent people. No one is a saint, but many people we interact with are honest, kind, and humble. But, Christian Miller discovers in his book that if you look at recent psychological studies closely many people regularly fail to acknowledge significant character flaws. Do you believe yourself to be a virtuous person? What do we expect of virtuous people? What is the difference between a virtue and a vice? Do we naturally move to help people? ## Further Reading: [The Character Gap](https://www.amazon.com/Character-Gap-Good-Philosophy-Action/dp/0190264225), written by Christian Miller [The Milgram Shock Experiment](https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html), written by Saul McLeod [A Call for Help](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help), written by Nicholas Lemann