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* Dying isn't the end of your existence, but it's the end of your human rights.[[note]]Even if the system is a lot better by the end of the series, the afterlife is still an undemocratic bureaucracy that treats freedom as a privilege to be earned, rather than an inherent right of all sentient beings.[[/note]]
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* You know you picked the short straw of universes when the fact that {{Heaven}}'s unrelenting perfection makes you just as miserable as being tortured in {{Hell}}.

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* You know you picked the short straw of universes when the fact that {{Heaven}}'s unrelenting perfection makes you just as miserable as being tortured in {{Hell}}.
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* Gaining a fresh experience after an eternity is wrong!
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[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS4E13WheneverYoureReady Whenever You're Ready]]"]]
* Happiness is boring. The only way to find peace is by killing yourself.
* If you wish for it really hard, you can change your species.
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs is completely true, and knowledge from this makes you a better person than charity work or philosophical study does.
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** It's literally impossible to get into Heaven, so why bother being a good person?

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** It's literally impossible to get into Heaven, so why don't bother being trying to be a good person? person.
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** It's literally impossible to get into Heaven, so why bother being a good person?
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* Capitalism is the source of all evil and suffering in the universe.
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* White musicians who ever did a "semi-ironic cover" of a rap song are just as serial killers and dictators.

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* White musicians who ever did a "semi-ironic cover" of a rap song are just as bad as serial killers and dictators.
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* Don't waste your life trying to get into heaven... because globalism is sending you to hell.


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* You know you picked the short straw of universes when the fact that {{Heaven}}'s unrelenting perfection makes you just as miserable as being tortured in {{Hell}}.
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[[folder:General]]
* It doesn't matter how good you are. If you're not an outright messiah, you're going to Hell anyway.
* Adhering to any one philosophy or CharacterAlignment makes you either evil, stupid, miserable or all of the above.
** GoodIsDumb.
* Humans are the center of the universe and every other sentient being in the universe revolves their entire eternal lives around our happiness or unhappiness.
* Taste is objective. Liking or disliking certain media or food is a moral act and not liking the right things makes you a bad person.
* Whoever wrote the objective moral laws of the universe is a racist.
* AllCrimesAreEqual in the eyes of higher beings.
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[[folder:Season One]]
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS1E08MostImprovedPlayer Most Improved Player]]"]]
* Don't be a ''Music/RedHotChiliPeppers'' fan or else you're a bad person.
* Don't take your shoes off while in an airplane or else you're a bad person.
* Don't have a custom license plate or else you're a bad person.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS1E13MichaelsGambit Michael's Gambit]]"]]
* Hosting charities and making the world a better place means absolutely nothing if you don't ''really'' mean it.
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[[folder:Season Two]]
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS2E05TheTrolleyProblem The Trolley Problem]]"]]
* Don't be French or else you're a bad person. Even just being ''born'' in France is a moral failing on your part and you'll be tortured in Hell for it.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS2E10RhondaDianaJakeAndTrent Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent]]"]]
* Don't floss at your work-space or else you're a bad person.
* If you're caucasian, don't get dreadlocks or else you're a bad person.
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[[folder:Season Three]]
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS3E09Janets Janet(s)]]"]]
* Don't have a ThemedWedding or else you're a bad person, ''especially'' if it's ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]]'' themed.
* Make sure to die before the Age of Colonization or else you're a bad person.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS3E10TheBookOfDougs The Book of Dougs]]"]]
* Don't buy flowers in the 21st century or else you're a bad person.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS3E11ChidiSeesTheTimeKnife Chidi Sees the Time-Knife]]"]]
* Don't eat chicken sandwiches or else you're a bad person.
* Capitalism is the source of all evil and suffering in the universe.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceTheSelectionPart6TheSolution The Solution]]"]]
* BoyBand managers are equally as evil as serial killers and dictators.
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[[folder:''The Selection'']]
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceTheSelectionPart1TheMission The Mission]]"]]
* White musicians who ever did a "semi-ironic cover" of a rap song are just as serial killers and dictators.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceTheSelectionPart2TheCandidates The Candidates]]"]]
* Comic Book Critics are equally a bad as cult-leaders and animal poachers.
* Don't have a [=TikTok=] account or else you're a bad person.
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[[folder:Season Four]]
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS4E06AChipDriverMystery A Chip Driver Mystery]]"]]
* Humanity sucks baaad!
* Refusing to tolerate another person's intolerance makes you equally intolerant.
* Don't be a Baby-Boomer or else you're a bad person.
* Tech nerds changing the charger-shape on the newest cellphones are [[AllCrimesAreEqual equally immoral]] to warmongers, {{Serial Killer}}s, and Anti-Vaxxers.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS4E08TheFuneralToEndAllFunerals The Funeral to End All Funerals]]"]]
* If you're an amoral jerk, don't worry about changing on Earth. Maybe when you die, you'll eventually be a major component in saving humanity in the afterlife.
[[AC:"[[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS4E12Patty Patty]]"]]
* People are ''never'' satisfied.
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