Do you think it's easier to turn a good person bad, than a bad person good?

It might seem easier to corrupt a good person on TV, but I don't think it's the same in real life. Most of the genuinely good people I know would never do something that's terrible, no matter how hard you tried to convince them. I don't think it's harder to turn a bad person good. I think it's just that both good and bad people have their weak-minded members, and their strong members. If you're strong, you'll know your values and won't turn on them, whether they're good values or bad values.

I would say that it's easier to corrupt a person, but I'd also say that there is a certain amount of societal bias that we place on being a bad person over a good person.

As in, it seems easier to personify a person as being 'bad' versus a person as being good. For example, it's fairly easy to convince a kid to cheat on a test or steal something from a store, especially if it's a teenager. I would say that it's equally as easy to convince someone to donate some change to charity. For some reason cheating or stealing seem a lot worse than donating to charity seems good.

In my opinion, the scales by which we judge good and bad appear to be unbalanced.

You're right in many senses, although here's another perspective, a good person left to their own devices will more than often remain good, A bad person left to their own devices more than often reflects on their wrong doings and decide themselves to turn a new leaf so to speak. strange but true. It's easier to corrupt a good person because a bad one is already corrupted.

I don't think you can turn someone into anything. If they change it has to be by themselves. You can't make someone good or bad. Unless of course you are talking about children. Kids from really abusive backgrounds can end up bad (of course I didn't but I said CAN not WILL) because of their parents, but when they become old enough to understand right from wrong that is their decision and they can change if they want to.

I think it's easier to turn a good person bad.

Because I think we are all as nice as we feel we can afford to be. Only being hurt or afraid is keeping us from doing good - we all want to think of ourselves as good people. And it's a lot easier to scare and hurt someone, than to heal and nourish them.

It's easier to corrupt a good person

from experience ive had both a good childhood 1-12 then when i became a teenager my parents divorced and we struggled alot i would have to say it totally depends on how the person see things in his life going through both i strayed off into bad things drugs and what not but now im a stronger person i learned while struggling between right and wrong soooo i decided i wasnt going to be BAD i changed my habits and problems..there is some truth in what your saying but generally anything could happen bad people come from good and bad childhoods good people come from good and bad childhoods also it just depends which way the child decides to go. Just because i ended up there (bad tennage life) i knew i wasnt going to stay there.

I think good and bad exist side by side in all of us. It's a balance, and situations, more than people, tip the scales from one way to the other.

good person bad is easier.

sometimes people who are violent have a genetic predisposition to act that way for example.

whereas a good person might only be good because they havent faced circumstances that triggers the darker side to human nature.

Good person bad.