What makes a person bad?

[Exian]

I don't think anyone is bad. Maybe fucked in the head or misguided, but I don't think anyone goes out of their way to do evil. They just do what they think is best for the situation they face.

That is exactly how I feel. Even people who do horrible evil things must either think it's right or not be able to stop themselves.

We ourselves make the person bad or good, there is no such thing as good or bad, its what works for the society, and ourselves that we measure good and bad.

I feel the same way you do, Losty. There is always an uncontrollable circumstance at hand, and those circumstances prevent me from truly hating anyone. Nevertheless, I still have gut reactions that I can't seem to help at first. And I feel punishment of some kind is in order.

Even though you believe people are good and only do bad things, do you think they should be punished in some way?

You're over thinking this, people. It's the hat color. White makes you the Lone Ranger, black makes you Darth Vader.

Or KKK and Zoro....

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I'm not on the fence as far as Christianity goes, but I am on the fence for most things in my life. I don't like to hold on so tightly to anything. I like to keep an open mind.

My grandma calls me a mugwump, which, I guess, loosely means fence-sitter. I find, in my life, that fence-sitters are not common. I'm usually the only one in an informal debate listening to both sides, and not just listening, but understanding how a person might arrive at a particular conviction.

I've had too many strongly held ideas in my past, that were overturned by a single addition of information, to hold too strongly to anything anymore. Can't see the forest for the trees.

One reason I joined this forum was to better inform myself, and maybe to learn to have stronger convictions in conversation, as I've always been a smidge ashamed of my fence-sitting, so seeing your post was nice.

I feel that fence-sitting goes hand in hand with listening, peacekeeping, and open-mindedness.