system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is not doing a bad thing good?

The original premise for the question was vegetarianism, i.e. if killing animals for the pleasure of eating them is "wrong" and seen as a "bad" thing, is abstaining a "good" thing or simply neutral? If people think that they're doing a good thing by not eating animals, why don't they think that they're doing a good thing by not killing everyone they come across, or not stealing when they go into a store? My first reaction is that perhaps the difference between a good or neutral *inaction* comes from a social moral differing from an objective moral (i.e. most people think that murdering a human is bad, while most people think that murdering farm animals is fine).

However, the question is intentionally vague because I'm interested in different interpretations. Feel free to ignore the premise.
gpt
It probably helps if you have a distinction between "praiseworthy" and "non-praiseworthy" actions, in addition to "good" and "bad" actions. 

Sometimes we do good things that are praiseworthy (because they involve a sacrifice, or a great risk, for example) but sometimes we don't deserve praise for doing what we ought to do (like not killing random people that we meet). So, there are some actions we might want to say are good actions, without necessarily saying we should praise a person for doing them.