What Kind of Person do you want to be? Is the title of one of the chapters. The first line of this chapter is, " Why do good people do bad things?" Kushner uses an example of a married couple that came to him many years ago and said they needed counseling. He had known the family for many years and thought it was no other but the main, either marital problems or problems with their teenagers. When the family came he asked what the issue was and it was none of the above. It was about their business, they had signed with a religious Jew, as business partners and he stole lots of money from the them and the business. So they came to find the answer to the question, " Why do good people do bad things?" The wife constantly kept going on about how involved in the church the Jew was and how flabbergasted she was at the incident. Another story in the chapter was the preacher who was more active and giving than anyone in their town and had to move far away because he had been caught having inappropriate relations with the young girls in the youth group. Kushner says, " I tried to tell the married couple and the preacher I had eaten lunch with that organized religion attracts all sorts of people, good and bad, strong and weak, for all sorts of reasons. I quoted a line I had once written, that a church or synagogue that only admitted saints would be like a hospital that only admitted healthy people. It would be a more pleasant place and easier to run, but that's not what we're in business for." This is my favorite chapter because we see cruelty every SINGLE day on the news. Some stole something, a person was murdered, a child was kidnapped, and every time I hear these stories with my mom, We always have that disgusted look on our faces and say, " What kind of human being would do such a thing?" But while I sit and judge the murderer, which is a sin, am I much better by lying to a person to their face or judging a fellow classmate that has a style that I don't agree with? What differentiates the two? Am I so much better? Kushner sums up the chapter by saying that we don't really understand the definition of good because someone can do bad things but still do good for some else, but we tend to look more at what a person lacks than what a person gains.