Good vs. bad

Something very interesting I just read - contrary to many philosophies, in the Baha'i faith, there is no dualism of Good and Bad. The Baha'i concept of bad is that it is either

1. the absence of good: and so darkness is the absence of light, dishonesty is the absence of honesty, and so on.

or

2. the incompatibility between two good things: and so, for example, men and poisonous snakes are incompatible, but that does not make snakes "bad".

If we really think about it, all the different occasions we label people or actions as "bad" can easily be fit into these two categories. It is when we believe that things/people are intrinsically bad that we let negative emotions take over positive emotions - and so hate replaces love, war replaces unity. Instead if we believed that people were innately good (as they all come from God), and have all the virtues of God embedded in them, but commit "bad" actions because they have not realized this, it changes the complete attitude we have towards them. Our role, in our interactions with others, then, is not to find the faults in them, but rather to harvest the fruits of goodness in them.