{"id":28607,"date":"2025-08-12T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28607"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:31:40","slug":"if-someone-were-to-get-rid-of-all-the-bad-people-would-that-make-them-bad-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/08\/12\/if-someone-were-to-get-rid-of-all-the-bad-people-would-that-make-them-bad-also\/","title":{"rendered":"If someone were to get rid of all the bad people, would that make them bad also?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW081225.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW081225.png\" alt=\"If someone were to get rid of all the bad people, would that make them bad too?\" class=\"wp-image-28605\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">If someone were to get rid of all the bad people, would that make them bad also?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to think that way, but I think the golden rule applies here; maybe someone somewhere thinks you&#8217;re bad, but you&#8217;re awesome, so nobody should get rid of you! Also, consider: who gets to identify who&#8217;s bad? What makes their judgment better than anyone else&#8217;s? How many bad people are called bad because of something they did, but could, given a chance, make amends and atone for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tempting to think that way, but I think the golden rule applies here; maybe someone somewhere thinks you&#8217;re bad, but you&#8217;re awesome, so nobody should get rid of you! Also, consider: who gets to identify who&#8217;s bad? What makes their judgment better than anyone else&#8217;s? How many bad people are called bad because of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/08\/12\/if-someone-were-to-get-rid-of-all-the-bad-people-would-that-make-them-bad-also\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If someone were to get rid of all the bad people, would that make them bad also?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28615,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28607\/revisions\/28615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}