Poll: Are human beings born good or evil?

[martin's a madman]

Amoralism!

 

[Pandalisk]

They arnt born good or evil.

They grow up to be good or evil.

 

[Rasputin1]

I don't it's as black and white as good and evil.

 

[Normalgamer]

Yep, you need to teach a person to act civil.
You don't need to teach them to kill each other. That comes natural.

Some people simply never learn to be good. You can tell based on people's reactions to things.
Especially now-a-days. It's all selfishness and unaccountability for today's youth.

"Me me me" unless something is wrong, then it's everyone else's fault but their own. They never learn to take responsibility for their own actions and instead get taught the opposite.


Also, we're all going to hell. No matter how nice of a person you are, your soul is stained with sin. Simply being human causes that.

Lol, troll.

And by that I mean, trolololololololol. Troll.

And even by that I mean:
This generation isn't any more dickish or terrible then any of the future ones, they just are terrible in different ways. And I disagree with the hell part, since hell just doesn't seem to have any evidence to support it's existance.

OT: They're born "evil" in my opinion, it's how every animal is born, selfish.

 

[Sacman]

Neither, Good and Evil are utterly meaningless words, that hold no weight in my mind...

 

[Peteron]

You realize there is no good or evil, right? Good and Evil is decided by the environment we live in. For example, here in America, killing innocents is evil, yet in Germany under Hitler, it was a good thing to do depending on the ethnicity.

 

[signingupforgames]

(I believe)

We are all born Tabula Rasa and that our upbringing defines us. BUT
(I believe)
everyone needs to learn the appropriate times to do/voice neutral actions/opinions.
(e.g. running around with a diaper on your head/saying "You're an asshole" to an asshole.)

 

[REAPER5594]

I think that they are born as assholes.and you can Either become "good" or "evil". or you could just stay as an asshole. as most of the population chooses to do.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

i think everyone is born without personally, they develop it based on their parents (or whoever they live with) actions and opinions

so if their parents swear for example they pick it up and it becomes part of their lives.

 

[Talvrae]

Good and evil are ammatters of perspective... Baby lack of it, they dont know the difference of good and evil, and ont care

 

[That's Funny]

Monkeys, that's right we are all born monkeys, doesn't make sense, but I never ever do.

MONKEYS

 

[Ham_authority95]

Biologic processes, which create humans in the first place, don't operate on "good" and "evil".

So no, I doubt it.

 

[SousukeSeg]

There is no such thing as good or evil, there is only progress, animals kill each other to survive and get stronger, the week die so the strong live. That is nature, that is life.

It was our superior intellect that created morals that separate us from animals and in so doing we risk destroying our species, because we pity the week.

Good and evil are a list of rules, written by however is in charge, if a human is born alone with no one to teach it what is right or wrong by their standards, it reverts back to being an animal only intent on surviving, could you convict such a creature of killing someone any more then you would any other wild animal killing it's prey.

 

[neoontime]

Easy, we are born with plain slates for we chose between good and evil as we grow.

 

[orangecharger]

Neither, their not born with an idea or senese of right or wrong. Blank slates.

I'd say they are al born equal, it's the way that they are raised that changes them for good or for evil...

So basically this.

This is in line with my feelings -- but I will put one caveat -- true psychopaths, sociopaths, etc. have true physiological issues in their brain. I don't think their brain activity even looks the same as someone "normal". No amount of even-handed, loving, and caring parenting can rectify that situation.

 

[Scout Tactical]

People are never good or evil, because those are arbitrary designations.

People can do good, or do right, but that does not make them good or right.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Without any teaching towards the contrary, human beings are born greedy, lustful, and violent.

Which are instincts that helped them survive back when it was survival of the fittest.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

They arn't born evil, they are just fast learners.

 

[TailsRodrigez]

Humans are neither born good nor evil, those are concepts invented by humanity and are subjective because there is no define guidelines for good or evil. However, the reasons certain characteristics remain in all humans, such as violence, is due to the fact that over the course of human evolution fighting for survival is all we did, soon we just had those violent tendencies just be programmed from the start so survival would be easier.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Everyone is born with a tenancy toward doing wrong.

"Wrong" is a term that is not in biological instincts.

"Survive however possible", however, is.