Human beings are slaves of their own personal thoughts and actions and that’s not a bad thing, in fact there is no running away from that. Now, is a particular person good or bad is a question of how a person or society or groups judge him.
A person is what he is. Let me take some extreme examples. Mother Teresa was obviously a good person. She took care of the sick and needy, genuinely felt for them and build a fantastic humanitarian society with this philosophy. Is she good? Of course she is, beyond doubt. Now what about a psycho serial killer? Is he bad? Apparently he is. But then let’s say he is assigned to a special psychiatric doctor and then what would you expect the doctor to think of him. The doctor would definitely not judge him. He would rather analyze him and try to fix his bad traits and bring him on track.
So basically I would like to think that all persons were born good, but then circumstances, environments could make him display bad traits or act in a wrong way.
The perspective of the judge here is of utmost importance. A drug lord looking for an accomplice would look for a person with all the ‘wrong’ traits and then find him ‘good’. In the movie “The Italian Job” there is this classic dialogue. “I like you, but I don’t like the things you do”. What would make that person? Good or Bad?
There is no digital answer to this in terms of 0 and 1. It’s much more complicated than that. You have to continuously analyze information and then base your opinion and that could change too under changing circumstances.
Have I been bad or good in my thoughts? I am sure views would be divergent!!
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