I can, and do.<p>&quot;Bad actor&quot; is a term. &quot;Bad&quot; is an adjective. It&#x27;s like saying &quot;apple&quot; and &quot;pine apple&quot; must be the same fruit. We&#x27;re smart enough to give different meanings to the same word, in different contexts.<p>Bad actors act in a specific way that we can observe, model, understand, and predict. This is independent of perspective. &quot;Bad&quot; is a moral judgement that only exists in the head of the target.<p>A beetle parasite of an ant colony is a &quot;bad actor.&quot; It is not &quot;bad.&quot;