Why Should I Be Good? What Makes Me, Me? And Other Interesting Questions

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This is Ben.

He is just walking along when...

Oh! Hang on.

He's found something.

It's a ring!

It's not just any ring, though.

It's a magic ring.

A real, proper magic ring

that makes you disappear when you put it on.

So now... Ben?

Uh... Is he still there?

Ah! So now, Ben starts imagining

the awesome things he can do

with his new power.

He could use the ring to help people,

like stopping nasty burglars

before they get away.

So kind of like a real superhero.

Um... Maybe he needs a name.

Invisible Boy!

But then, he could also use it

to play tricks on people,

which might not be helpful,

but it could be quite funny.

Ooooooh...

He-he-he-he!

CHILDREN CHATTER

Stop Daddy eating my chocolate.

Be really good at hide-and-seek.

If I was grounded, I'd sneak out the window without them noticing.

I would rescue a friend from an enemy base.

THEY LAUGH

The right thing to do would be to save my friends,

because they might be in trouble and they might be killed.

I think the right thing to do would be to hand the ring in

and then, it may be put in a museum or somewhere like that.

I think there is a right and wrong,

it's just, so many people that have different points of views

that it's hard to tell which one's right and which one's wrong.

So if you saw something bad happen in an early age,

you might think that's a good thing to do.

Soon, Ben gets bored just thinking

about what he's going to do with the ring

and decides to have a little bit of fun with it.

He-he-he!

There's Sophie having a lovely dolls' tea party.

And then, along comes Ben to wreak havoc with it.

Ooooooh...

SHE SCREAMS

Later on, Ben is just playing ball with Corinne when...

Uh-oh...

Enter the magic ring again,

which helps him disappear

and cleverly avoid getting caught.

Phew!

Well, if you were to do something bad,

then, you might feel bad about what you did.

I feel that if it's something little,

like in your own house

with like, your friends and stuff or something funny,

then, it might be OK.

But if, like, it's something bigger,

then, it's probably not OK,

even if it's like a...thief or a burglar,

you might not feel guilty,

but it's probably... It's bad to do it, because it affects other people.

So Ben's become quite attached to being invisible

and he finds himself thinking

he'd like one of those lovely, juicy apples.

Mmm... He could just steal one

and, if he's invisible, he can't get caught, can he?

But Sophie has seen what he's up to

and, ever so quietly, she creeps up on him and catches him in the act.

Uh-oh...

Sophie says, "Why don't you use your power to do good things?"

She tells him that doing good things makes her feel happy.

And that we should all do good things because...

Well, because it's good.

What do you think?

Doing good things makes you happy most of the time,

but, sometimes, doing a good thing you might not get what you want

or you might not say what you want or things like that,

so it doesn't always, but, most of the time, it does.

If you did something good, it normally makes you happy,

because if other people know,

they'll think you're a good person

and they'll like you, so they'll become your friend.

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