Hello Dragonfly. The world certainly has problems, but 80% of the people that I have met are pretty good people. Even my sister, who I do not get along with at all, is a pretty good person. We just don't along.
In my mind (and that is only in my mind and not necessarily someone else's mind) just because a person has a different personality than mine, doesn't make them right or wrong. They can even have a different set of values than I have and still be a good person.
I don't think my sister has very volunteered a day in her life. She probably thinks I'm nuts for volunteering as she believes if you are going to do something you should get paid for it. she tends to be extremely cheap, except with herself and I don't agree with her philosophies, but she was a far better aunt to my children that I ever was an uncle to her children. She is also a good mother and wife.
So while we disagree intensely on many things(including whether or not a mental illness is a real illness) she is not a bad person. I don't like her much and I don't want to be around her, but that doesn't make either one of us a bad person.
Having a mental illness is neither a good trait nor a bad one, it's just an illness. Very often a difficult illness, but it is still just an illness.
While I have seen many a**holes in life, I've seen a lot of people that have a mental illness that are real a**holes too and it has nothing to do with their illness. They were that way before they every got ill.
However I'll still stand by my statement that most people are good people, just because they life a different life style, doesn't make them a bad person. What makes them a bad person is when they deliberately start to invade someone else's life.
Are there obnoxious, irritating, greedy and mean people out there, there sure are, but it always has been that way all through history.
Per usual, these are my feelings only and doesn't mean that I'm right. Take Care. paul m