Have you noticed that many "bad people" were once good people, and many "good people" may have gradually become the person they once despised? People do not become bad overnight, nor do they become good overnight. Evil often begins with a small rationalization: a compromise for profit, an abandonment of principles, a self-justification of a mistake. Goodness also comes from repeated choices: insisting on principles, taking responsibility, restraining desires. What ultimately determines where a person ends up is not who they were in the past, but who they choose to become at every critical juncture. A person is not defined by a single choice, but shaped by countless repeated choices.