If you don’t agree with the concept of good or bad people, you dont have to answer. If you think a person is good or bad based on where they were born you don’t have to answer.
If you don’t agree with the concept of good or bad people, you dont have to answer. If you think a person is good or bad based on where they were born you don’t have to answer.
In my opinion categorizing someone as categorically bad is reductive, lazy thinking.
I’m not saying you need to like pedophile rapists and murderous colonizers.
Merely that going through life categorizing the every day people you meet as good or bad is reductive, lazy thinking and frankly - the basis of undesirable cognitive habits like racism and prejudice.
The people you interact with each day are complex individuals with just as much going on internally as you do. None of them think of themselves as “bad”.
I agree but at some point you have to make a decision, because in your personal life you will trust and stay away from people based on that judgement. Basically, people cross a threshold one way or another, where that lies is somewhat different from everyone (in intensity not direction) but not by much.
Racism is the opposite though: regardless of your deeds, you’re good or bad if you’re part of my personally accepted tribes.
And whether they think themselves as bad when it’s warranted or not is inconsequential. Of course their nasty, vicious deeds are beautiful in their eyes, they’ve taken a million steps away from virtue, they can’t recognise it and if they did they’d have to push away those thoughts or become suicidally regretful.
Do you believe in free will btw? Or is this also part of the equation in your thinking, that people don’t really make any decisions so how can we judge them?
Sorry im struggling to understand whatever points youre trying to make.