I am trying to determine the point at which good people doing bad things makes them a bad person.
Everyone has done a bad things. Even good people.
I consider myself to be a good person, and I have done / said things that I regret even 30 years later.
I imagine that even bad people, who are fundamentally bad and do bad things, still think that they are good people. Just to use the most bombastic analogy, I don’t think even bona fide Nazis thought they were evil.
I don’t think the most evil communists think they are evil.
Maybe serial killers or gangbangers acknowledge that they are evil, and just don’t care.
But I think the bulk of bad people still think they are good.
There is a point at which good people become bad. And there is a point at which even bad people can become good.
so what is it? A pattern of conduct? Judgment or lack there of?
Inherent weakness of character? Inherent strength of character?
Reliance on some underlying principles or faith in a higher power? Although I have personally encountered many awful people who claim to believe in God.
There will be no definitive point or punchline to this.
Just meandering thoughts watching people behave lately.