#thanks kath
small brain: Tahani doesn’t belong in the Good Place because her motivations were selfish
bigger brain: Tahani’s motivations were not that bad and were a result of toxic family relationship, and the good she did by raising enormous amounts of money outweighs that anyway
giant brain: Tahani’s charity indeed made a large positive impact, but that was only possible because of how rich her family was, so she does not deserve to be put above people who did not have the same resources. her obliviousness and elitism are further evidence of that. the problem is not her motivations but her privilege
galactic brain: the system that arbitrarily sorts people into a small number of saints who get paradise forever and a large number of sinners who must suffer forever is a cosmic version of the same system of privilege and, if truly exists, is the real evil. the criteria for sorting are just a distraction. criticizing the criteria presented to us by the canon and trying to think of better ones is pointless at best and serves to justify that system at worst
