neutral language rule

But aren't you a bat? :o

To be fair, as long as you have :3 they're good.

"Am I a good person? :3"

That's what I do! I tell my partner he's a good pupper. I tell my dog he's a tiny asshole. Both are true.

Partner's allowed to use any terms of endearment that would apply to our dog without them being read as gendered, on the theory that brain wires get crossed and I'm happy to be in the same love-nickname-category as the pup.

Have I been?

I don't quite understand what you mean in that first paragraph. Are you talking about people who justify clearly bad behavior with religion? Or the opposite, people who are uncertain about good behavior because it contradicts their religion? Or both at the same time, people who give up trying to define good and bad and just do whatever, because God will forgive them anyway?

I worry about being good though, not for spiritual reasons, but because the world is created by the tiny choices we make each day and I worry about making the world worse out of complacency.

:3 Have I been a good person? :3