Why do you want to be a good person? I want to be one, too, and I try to be one and I think I'm mostly successful in this, but I honestly don't get why I want to develop to become a truly empathetic and mindful person. It may be mostly theory, the knowledge that your own freedom ends where another's begins. Plus a general understanding of pain and what it does to you, and thus can do to others. "Avoiding pain" might the most basic principle.

So I guess I have an inclination of why I want to be a good person. Why do you want that?