The Nature of The Good

Asking why something is good once turns out to be different from asking it six times.

When students were asked why a particular action was good, and why they took that good to be good, and why that good they took to be good was good...(you get the idea) many began to either:

1) Repeat their definition of the good, saying things like "selflessness is just good",

2) Become confused or distracted writing things like "because Jesus is God".

3) Show significant disinterest and anger by voicing a "blah, blah"or just writing "NO".

Sometimes such responses occurred after just one "but why" question, but most made it to three requests, some four. Here's the tally:

There was a lot of variety over what students took to be the nature of the good:

I like the selflessness answer. For the Christian, I suppose there is no greater good. Might a group of non-Christian students have a different top answer?