All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.
Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.
Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.
I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.