Depends on what qualifies for a "good deed". Are we talking about a 'quid pro quo' type of "good deeds" (you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours), or an “I’ll mow your lawn for a gallon of milk”? Furthermore, would it also mean that if one does a bad deed that they should get a bad deed done to them in return (tit for tat)?
Doing "good deeds" should be a normal way of life, like eating or putting on clothes. Moreover, when doing them one shouldn't expect to get something in return. If we used “good deeds” as barter, the world would be no better off than it is now. “I did this “good deed” for you, now you owe me!” We’d have “good deed” banks (I need to borrow some good deeds so I can get a house); people withholding doing “good deeds” because another hadn’t paid them back yet (sorry, you can’t have that because I did 30 “good deeds” for you but you’ve only done 2 for me); collection agencies demanding that outstanding ‘good deed” debts be paid in full; banks foreclosing because a person fails to do “good deeds” on time …. Sounds rather absurd doesn’t it?
What qualifies for a “good deed”? “I helped an elderly person cross the street so I did a good deed”. (Dern whippersnapper! I didn’t want to cross the street... now I have to go back across). “I weeded my neighbor’s garden for them, so I did a good deed”. (Those weren’t weeds they were my prize petunias!)
Seems easier if we’d simply follow the golden rule – “Do to others what you‘d want them to do to you.” no bartering, no misunderstood “good deed” and no payback.
WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH 