Comment by shermantanktop

Bad acts are in the past, and may be situational or isolated.

Labelling a person as bad has predictive power - you should expect them to do bad acts again.

It might be preferable to instead label them as “a person with a consistent history of bad acts, draw your own conclusion, but we are all capable of both sin and redemption and who knows what the future holds”. I’d just call them a bad person.

That said, I do think we are often too quick to label people as bad based one bad act.