"We have all done bad things. Therefore, no person is better than any other."

The above quote is a popular argument. People who use it are using bad reasoning. They are using the argument solely because it suits their particular belief. That belief being that no person is better than any other. Often times, it's the bad people who are using this argument. If one can say, "It's okay that I'm bad because you're no better," then it makes them feel a lot better.

However, these people are wrong.

To argue that "We have all done bad things, therefore, no person is better than the other" makes as much sense as saying, "We all have a certain height, therefore no person is taller than the other" or "We all have a certain weight, therefore no person is heavier than ther other."

Clearly, we have all done bad things. However, some people have committed a more numerous amount of bad acts than others. Some people have committed acts that are worse than others in terms of degree (say the difference between raping a woman and stealing a candy bar).

Since we all have not done the same bad acts, then it follows that some people have done more bad than others.

Of course, some people are worse than others. Hitler is obviously a lot worse than Ghandi or Martin Luther King, Jr. There are many examples that show this.

How people find the argument that "We have all done bad things, therefore no person is better than the other" compelling is beyond me. Thinking about it for oh, about two seconds easily proves it to be false.

Don't use this argument, it's bad. If you find someone who uses this argument, sit them down, tell them they are mistaken, and pull out a history book and show them how they are not as bad as some people who have lived in the past.