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Originally Posted by sugarbeeMe
Do you folks think there are more good people or bad people in this world?
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Everyone thinks they're doing "the right thing". Only very few believe themselves to be evil. On a societal scale, "good" and "evil" fluctuated over the course of history. There are only a few things (murder, rape, stealing) that have been viewed as "evil" consistently through human history. And even killing has been seen as ambiguous in the past, often even glorious when it came to enemies in war.
Confederate generals were seen as folk heroes in the American South once, nowadays their statues are often seen as problematic. Martin Luther is viewed as something next to a saint by some Protestants, yet some of his writings display rampant antisemitism. Was he a "bad" person? I don't think so. Was he a "good" person? I don't know. He was a person of his time.
Good or bad are mostly societal labels. I don't think any one of us will be judged as entirely "good" by future historians.