Are people born naturally evil?

[ImSoCool599]

Or is it our environment that influences whether or not we will be a bad person? I guess along with that, if you believe we are inherently born evil, does that mean that it is our environment that we grow up in that keeps us good and respectful as we become older?

[Xero_Daxter]

Just because I'm a villain doesn't mean I am evil.

[Pieshaman]

I would kill the baby just in case
*edit: I would draw a little mustache on baby first so I can cope with it and still sleep at night.

[Xero_Daxter]

Pieshaman lähetti viestin:

I would kill the baby just in case
*edit: I would draw a little mustache on baby first so I can cope with it and still sleep at night.

You seem like the type of person who would go back in time to deal with a "wannabe artist".

[ℭycaleo]

In my experience, the people who discuss this most are those who are trying to deal with their conscience. It's good to have a conscience.

[40000Aggro]

I used to believe that people were mostly good and the few bad people were a small minority of the overall population and not representative of the whole.

There are times I recognize that people can do a lot of good, but my overall view has always been that humans are heavily flawed, despite how most are good, and now I feel like the only difference between a good person and a bad person are chance/circumstance. Every person is a bad person and they don't act it out unless they're put in a position to want to. So good people are only good because they haven't met a person or events to push them in a way to change them. It's not about, "I'm not that kind of person so I wouldn't".

Humans have done horrific things throughout history that makes me genuinely question how "good" people could willingly be part of that and not see issue. Like in history when burning witches and public killings were a thing for crowds of people. I don't believe in witches but it's terrifying to me that a person can simply be accused and it means their death.

So, yes, I can't help but think there is bad in everyone, and I don't think what made people stand around watching public executions was because people are inherently good. I still don't believe every person is a murdering psychopath, though, but I believe even "good" people can do some very bad things.

[Pieshaman]

Xero_Daxter lähetti viestin:

Pieshaman lähetti viestin:

I would kill the baby just in case
*edit: I would draw a little mustache on baby first so I can cope with it and still sleep at night.

You seem like the type of person who would go back in time to deal with a "wannabe artist".

yeah but then I would go to the 20's or 30's, cause I pretty sure I can beat up that little man in his grownup form.
*on second thought: with my brown skin I probably not get passed the brown shirts, so better to just stomp him in babyform without a bodygaurd

[PaulKrawitz]

I'd say it depends on genetics in combination with the environment.

Why do people become serial killers?

Because something inside their binary helix causes them to be a lot more violent than others and the only way to control it is by murdering something... or someone...

Same thing applies to pacifists.