If You Commit a Sin Are You a Bad Person?

         Think of a time when you have done something wrong. Perhaps you viewed it as a sin, perhaps you didn't. Either way you probably don't see yourself as a bad person. If you commit a sin you are not a bad person because everyone makes mistakes, what some people view as a sin others do not, or your protective instincts kicked in and you did it out of defense.
          Everyone makes mistakes. It's like if you perform poorly on a test, it doesn't mean that you are stupid. If you commit a sin you are not a bad person. Everyone has or will commit at least one sin in their life time, but most people on this earth are not bad people.
          If you grew up in a place where sin was common, you would not know anything other than sin. If you did not know any better, in your mind you're not doing anything wrong. In order to be a bad person, you have to have done something wrong, for there to be wrong, there has to be right, if you don't know what is right, wrong cannot exist. Bad can't exist without wrong. Therefore you cannot be a bad person if you know nothing more than wrong.
         When someone offends you, you'd do something, not thinking, to defend yourself. If someone was picking a fight with you and you just happened to have a weapon on you, chances are that out of reflex you would use that weapon on them. If you seriously injured them, I'd consider that a sin. You're not a bad person because you don't usually seriously injure people on a regular basis. It was in protection to yourself.
          You are not a bad person if you commit a sin. Everyone makes mistakes, if you committed a sin as an honest mistake you're not a bad person. If you grew up only knowing sin you're not a bad person. If you don't know whats right then you would not know that what you were doing was wrong so you're not a bad person. When you are in a situation where you don't know what to do so out of reflex you do something you wouldn't normally do to protect yourself, you're not a bad person because it was in defense. If you commit a sin you are not a bad person because the sin could have been in defense, it was an honest mistake, or you don't know whats right so in your mind your not sinning.