You can simplisitically define people who do bad things as "bad people" if you want, Shambles. I don't. I define them as deluded, confused, conflicted, frightened, desperate, unaware or ignorant people.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't subject them to the normal penalties of law, in order to protect society. But...I do not consider myself or anyone else qualified to judge the essential worth of another human being. We are simply qualified (to some extent) to judge whether their actions are acceptable or not.

And there's the difference between spiritual faith in humanity...and the habit of judging others that most people engage in without a second thought. Guess why virtually all great spiritual teachings have advised us NOT to judge others?

If you figure they're just foolish myths, of course, you can just ignore them and go ahead and be the righteous judge, jury and executioner of your fellow man, whom you have judged irredeemably evil and expendable. Or to put it another way: "Sigg Heil!" No mercy. No doubt of your own infallible judgement. No regrets.

"Hate means never having to say you're sorry." And vengeance is the path of the very, very stupid who know not what they do nor what fruit it will bear in time.

Such people hijack airliners and crash them into buildings. Such people blow up marketplaces. Such people imprison and torture without due process of law. Such people execute the condemned. Such people start wars. They may be religious, they may be atheists, it hardly matters.

They are found on both sides of any violent political issue, calling for stern retribution and destruction upon those whom they see as the "bad people". They are the mirror image of one another, and they make the World bleed.