There is an old adage that says there is a little bit of good in everyone. You probably know someone for whom you find that hard to believe. The challenge is to train yourself to see it, and then to bring it out of them. That’s gonna take patience and humility.
But think about it. How do you coax better behavior out of a child? Threatening and angry ultimatums don’t work. Encouragement and sympathetic reasoning and explanation often do. If you love on them consistently they will come to value that love and want to please you to maintain it.
The same is true of adults. Give them the kind of attention, caring and empathy they don’t get anywhere else. They will notice it. They will enjoy it. They will not want to lose it. And eventually they will give it back.
That’s when you will see that little bit of good.