"Good"

“Good”

People like to toss around the term without defining what they mean by it, but essentially mean “anything I already agree with.”

This is a vice because it leaves the reasoning behind any given position unexplored and results in plenty of actual harm. For example lots of powerful self-righteous people have defended slavery as “good.” If they were forced to ask why, why, why? and offer a definition of what supposedly made slavery good, the emperor's lack of clothes would be easily made manifest through reasoned counter-argument (categorical imperative, empathy, etc., etc.)