The qualities of people are traditionally divided into two types: good and bad, just as the world is divided in half by evil and good.
Let's look at what is good and what is evil in this world, and where is the border between the polar points of human qualities. On the example of character traits, which just determines the qualities of people.
Remember fairy tales. Good usually wins. And calms down. Evil wipes away bloody snot and sheds crocodile tears, but probably secretly accumulates strength for an unexpected attack. The story ends well. In the literal sense of the word. Because goodness in its undiluted form necessarily breeds evil. What was there in the fairy tale after the last words - about "making good"? We can only guess by observing the surrounding reality.
On the nature of good and evil
From the good we get fat. We make good. We calm down, we are lazy, we sybaritize. This is how good develops the bad qualities of people. And from the bad, that is, evil, of course,we become more active, more mobile, more tempered. This means that evil forms the good qualities of people. There is neither good nor evil in nature itself. The filthy snake inspired it to Adam and Eve, from there it came to us, into our poor heads. Everyone wants only good things and more. Everything at once. That in itself is evil. We do not like evil, because we are lazy, but only bad and able to make us move.
Civilized Rome and wild barbarians
The fall of the Roman Empire is an example of the wrong vision of good and evil and striving along the wrong path. How did it happen that a world-famous nation that abolished all taxes and achieved prosperity suddenly fell into agony? Strive for good things. And they even got it to their own detriment. Luxury, orgies, perversions. Neither discipline nor he alth remained in the nation. Wild, almost unarmed barbarians destroyed a great civilization. Here is such a paradox: everything became bad only because everything was good. In the same way, there are tendencies from bad to good and vice versa, if we consider the qualities of people in a separate group - a subculture. But this is especially evident in the example of any particular person.
Many facets of personality
Remember Tolstoy's story. The same person appears in two faces: at the ball - the sweetest and most caring dad for his Varenka, and after the ball - a ruthless monster in his service (beating a soldier with gauntlets). But he was behaviorally NORMAL in both situations. Which of the qualities does he have? Bad or good? Evil or good? Yes, both. One and the same person manifests himself in different ways - according to the situation. Not only this Colonel. It's like that. Personality is a multifaceted thing. With children, we behave one way, with adults differently, with superiors and subordinates, even with women and men - each person has many faces.
Circumstances and masks
The qualities of people can be revealed only by circumstances. We have our own mask for every situation. The range is huge. Not only the waiter in the cafe, smiling politely and promptly courting the visitor, mentally quartered him a hundred times. Almost all big politics is built on this: information war, which is hiding under the guise of a humanistic goal, at the end of its efforts, erasing entire states from the map. Behind beautiful slogans - the desire for profit or any kind of selfish interests. Only experience teaches to recognize the qualities of people.
Grow the hero in you
On the one hand, we see the good features of a person, and on the other, the bad ones. But the person is the same. In each - the whole spectrum: in an extreme situation, it may suddenly turn out that a brave man is a coward. No person can be brave always, every minute. It's suicidal. And a coward suddenly performs a feat - it also happens. So the cards fell or the stars formed. Or because the coward, knowing about this shameful quality of his, was not at rest, he painfully grew in himself a small seed of a future achievement.
On relationships that affect vision
So, neither the good nor the bad qualities of the people inside are alone. Everyone has everythingvariety of attitudes towards the world - both the one that is inside and the one that is outside. Even with himself, a person often cannot agree and evaluate this or that act of his own. Moreover, a stranger. For some reason, the same act of different people gives rise to a different attitude. Here, for example, an anecdotal mother-in-law shares the news: her daughter, they say, has such a good husband, gives gifts, cooks, takes care of the children, and her son’s wife is lazy, makes his children pick up from the garden, clean up the apartment and cook breakfast.
Conclusion
Every person is like the whole world. And, most likely, those about whom we have not yet formed an opinion simply did not have the opportunity to open up. Though maybe it's for the best.
