Out of Character: The Psychology of Good and Evil by Maria Popova

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/11/out-of-character/

This article is about the thought of good and evil. It talks about how sometimes a person we think to be "good" does something "bad" or vice versa. Of course I didn't watch this whole video that was on the article because its around 50 minutes long, but the gist of it is that we can't put a person into one category of good and bad. People's moral behaviors change all the time.

I don't really understand what the point of this was. Obviously, people who are considered "good" have done bad things becasue nobody's perfect and everybody makes a mistake. I am sure a generally "bad" person must have done something good in their lives as well.

Questions:

Is this topic even worth looking at? Because it's obvious that "good" people do some "bad" things and vice versa.

If a good, amazing person does something bad, does that now make them a bad person? If so, then we would have no good person in this world.