Good People and Bad People

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I suppose it would be easy if we could divide the world up into these two groups. Then we would know which group to hang with and whom we should avoid. Like the member of that other site who feels so bad that he got paid while others didn't, he's giving it to people who say they have financial needs. He's Good People. Or the members who are low enough to ask him for it. They're Bad People. But it's not so easy as that. That one's easy, yeah. But other things are more complicated. Like the video I saw this morning of a jihadi suicide bomber crying as he prepared to perform his suicide mission. I felt so sorry for him. He was young, I don't think he wanted to die. I wished it wasn't too late already to help him. He was a killer, he was an extremist, he was a terrorist. But deep inside, he was human and afraid. It's not so easy sometimes to tell the good people from the bad people and there's one simple reason for it. We have choices, we have good, we have bad. Perhaps that jihadist, if raised in a different environment would have had more of his good nature revealed. Perhaps if one of us was under extreme pressure, our bad nature would be revealed. I know that is true. You might not see my bad nature a lot, but go to a crowded supermarket with me some time and hear what I mutter under my breath. Good people, bad people, all people everywhere. What makes one person a monster and another a philanthropist? Nature? Nurture? I think it's both sometimes. Sometimes it seems one person in a family is bad, and everyone else is good. Sometimes a whole family is bad and one child turns out good. Perhaps there is something in their nature. Perhaps there is something in their environment? Maybe we all need to recognize that this dichotomy exists in all of us. I want to hang out with the Good People, but I am afraid I am too Bad for them to like.