Poll: Are People Inherently Good?
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When you are born you are neutral, when you grow up and learn values and priorities is when you join a side of good or bad.
Is totally what i think.
Is totally what i think.
I personally follow a hybrid Hobbesian-Lockian philosophy about man and the "state of nature". If you place man on a basic level with no laws or moral teachings whatsoever, he will be self-serving only. That is why we have laws: so that the innate self-centeredness of man can be held in check.
Call me a nihilist, that's just my opinion.
Call me a nihilist, that's just my opinion.
No, I don't think so. Look at children: they have a long, proud history of being completely horrible to one another and small animals.
This.Chips the Magic Dragon said:
No one is born a bastard or a saint.
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I would be inclined to say people are inherently good. Some people do great works purely out of the kindness of their hearts and dont ever expect a reward from it.
However some people are complete and put self gratification miles above anything else in life.
You can be 'good' or 'bad' at as you choose to however the more you do one the harder it is to switch.
However some people are complete and put self gratification miles above anything else in life.
You can be 'good' or 'bad' at as you choose to however the more you do one the harder it is to switch.
I hate to roughly quote Dr. Cox but, "people are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling."(yes very rough) If you took away rules people would regress to animal instincts, humans are, at heart, self serving bastards.
Yes I love the ideas of Hoobes, and Locke, we need laws because men are not angels.Undead Dragon King said:
But humans vary differently some genetics make others agressive, and other nice. I perfer to blame evil people on the work of the parents, hope they rot in hell, which ends up the evil people themselves become parents. Its a vicous circle, I don't think we should blame the children, but in the end we kind have to.
Ms. Havisham effect.
Estella wasn't a bad person, she became one, and she got the shit beat out of her by her husband. Not her fault in the end.
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I think its an outmoded concept. Most people are neither, capable of extreme acts from both end of the scale or are just neutral.
That in a natural environment with little upraising from society we resort to a self serving nature does not rule out the good or bad behavior, its just that it ceases to be really relevant to the situation, as unless observed of judged by others, the concept has no meaning to that person.
People are people. They can be Hitler's or Mother Teresa's' and any way in between, but ultimately, they are only seen that way because of others peoples' views.
That in a natural environment with little upraising from society we resort to a self serving nature does not rule out the good or bad behavior, its just that it ceases to be really relevant to the situation, as unless observed of judged by others, the concept has no meaning to that person.
People are people. They can be Hitler's or Mother Teresa's' and any way in between, but ultimately, they are only seen that way because of others peoples' views.
It's actually the opposite I believe, Humans are inherently bad, but have the ability to better themselves.
I say both yes and no. People can be born either good or bad, and then that personality either reinforced or diminished, depending on their upbringing.
Well you could say that the whole human race is born with the inherent desire to fight each other, we are really quite a violent race. But on a smaller scale, no. We learn our ways and mannerisms through life experience.
Well, there are general morals that are accepted as "good" and "evil", but people inherently do what makes sense to them. Sure, you may be doing what makes sense to you, but that doesn't mean it's "good" or "bad".
so people do what they think will get them the most benefit really.
so people do what they think will get them the most benefit really.