Is Faith just misunderstood and misguided or is she evil?

defenitly not evil i mean even when she was working for the mayor she wasn't really evil she was just looking for a place she beloged and the mayor provided that for her plus it seemed as though she only did it because she finally got fed up with being in Buffy's shadow all the time.

Ok Basicly i think that faith was never really evil. she was just misguided and her exuse was "im evil" just so she didnt have to deal with the pain of murdering someome

I don't think that faith was evil. I think she tried to be evil. Faith did something wrong and she had to choose:to do the right thing or go all the way.

I think that she thought it would be easier to be bad, to be evil, than to accept what she did and try to make amends. Once Faith killed that guy, she got a taste of true evil. I don't think she liked it. Not at first at least. But then it became all she knew.

Because she was never really accepted as the slayer, she was always 'the other one'. Which made her feel like, no matter how hard she tried, she was never 'good' enough. So, because she wasn't 'good' enough to be good, she tried to be bad.