Can someone truly be good or bad?

No, there is no good or bad or even evil it is just how people categorize people or what moms tell there children so they don't do it again. Good or Bad is like chocolate and vanilla they are made of the same stuff it is just a way to tell the difference. Like Good and Bad are one in the same. We all are good but sometimes we do bad things which doesn't make us bad just not a better person.

No one are born as either a good or bad person. It is the type of person that he or she chose to be that got him or her categorized in that label in the first place.

Example: Ying Yang

Neither Ying or Yang is completely bad or good, but one is still categorized as the bad...why? Because 90% of it is covered with what humanity considered as "bad."

In the end however, without the good, there won't be the bad. How can there be good, if there are no bad to compare it to in the first place? This universe needs both to balance out. Good and Bad are both essential to reality.

And only until people start realizing that can they learn to love everyone. People will continue to hate and discriminate individual until they realize the balancing scale of humanities (But then again, if people start to realize that, then wouldn't it make them God?). I'm still in the process of learning.=)

There are no truly good or bad people. its the way we see it and we can not place, but judge people in this way:

Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Well yes you can be good and sometimes stumble and fall, but you get back up, brush yourself off and continue, you don't just stay on the floor. But this is worthless if you don't have Jesus in your heart, otherwise no matter how good you are, you are still going to hell, That's what Jesus came to earth to die for, so that we can accept that sacrifice of his thus trusting in Him to save us from sin and hell. Here, click on this and check it out:

http://chick.com/reading/tracts/0022/0022_01.asp

People that are known to be good law abiding citizens have been known to do bad things and the reverse is true.

Please remember that what may seen good to one person may seem bad to another again the reverse is true.

It's a bell curve. There are very few people who even approach perfect goodness or perfect badness, and any who've actually achieved it?

Not sure. Maybe one or two.

No, I don't think we can. I think the "good" and the "bad" live side by side in everyone, just that everyone has those qualities in different quantities.. We measure people by their acts, and so give them those labels according to what they do.

No in a extremist form but some people are Badest than others

No one is good or bad. Their actions can be good or bad, but they themselves are not either one. How do you define good and bad? By actions, that is how. No actions, no definition.

not really. the actions can make the person bad or good, by birth nobody good or bad, but their karmas actions change them.