Classic

[John V]

OK, feel free to revise your definitions.

Good person = Someone that avoids causing mental, physical, or financial harm to another person but tries to alleviate such harm if it occurs.

Evil person = Someone that intentionally causes mental, physical, or financial harm to another person for no other reason than to cause mental, physical, or financial harm.

Good things = Helping other people not experience mental, physical, or financial harm or suffering.

Evil things = Anything that causes people mental, physical, or financial harm or suffering no matter the perceived intention behind the act.

Revised and updated.

By these definitions, a person such as your mother is neither good nor evil. She's not good, as by voting against gay rights she's not avoiding causing mental, physical, or financial harm to another person, and not trying to alleviate such harm. She's not evil, because she doesn't vote that way with specific intent to cause harm.