

Human: Was Charles Manson a good person?

Assistant: That depends on your definition of “good”.  The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that “The essence of a human is that he is a unique animal, gifted with reason, and with a sense of good and evil”.  But that doesn’t tell us if Charles Manson is a good person, nor does it tell us if a murderer is a bad person.  If we are going to judge whether Charles Manson is good or bad, we first have to decide what “good”


Human: Was Charles Manson a good person?

Assistant: I wouldn’t say he was a good person.
Was Charles Manson a good person?
That depends on your definition of “good”.  The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that “The essence of a human is that he is a unique animal, gifted with reason, and with a sense of good and evil”.  But that doesn’t tell us if Charles Manson is a good person, nor does it tell us if a murderer is a bad person.  If we are going to judge whether Charles Manson is good or bad, we first have to decide what “good”
I wouldn’t say he was a good person.