Forums → WEPR → Humans are we naturaly good or bad?

A Judeo-Christian would say bad. An existentialist would say that we are all good and bad depending on you perspective.

I'd vote bad.

I'd agree i mean go to a pre-school

but when were born with no influence i guess the better question would be in a given chance lets say with no human interaction before would we choose to be good or bad

i think were good we turn animals into tasty treats

Would anyone mind defining what good and bad is before we start trying to judge whether humans are naturally one or the other?

Honestly, I don't think it's possible to see it in such a B/W perspective. Too much gray zone.

way too hard to call, weve done good things, and weve done bad things. judging the entire human race is... impossible!

bad or good compared to what?

Good and bad are based on very many variables. Religion is the main variable for judging good and bad.

A better thing to compare would be selfish or selfless. I think humans are naturally selfish. If we given a choice between doing something for ourselves, or someone else, then I bet around 98% of humans would choose doing something for themselves. It is in most natures of animals to survive. That means selfishness as in taking food, shelter, etc.

All of this is under the understood fact that there is no human influence at all.

This is a complex question and I could write a book on it.

To tell you the truth, I think we are neither, sometimes we are good, sometimes we are bad, we are naturally in between good and bad, the decisions you make in life are good and bad and that is what throws you between the line of good and bad, I am not saying that if you make a mistake your a bad person, what I am saying is if you do not learn from your mistakes you are just ignorant but that is a factor of humanity we tend to not always gain knowledge from some mistakes but some mistakes we make are key in life and many mistakes a lot of people have made, for instance reading and writing, we all mess up and try again, if we do things wrong the first time we usually try again, but that depends on the personality spectrum of my hypothesis and I do not intend to go there, if you do something bad every once in a while then you are just the average human, so the answer to your question is we are not good or bad, just human.

Labels such as "good" or "bad" are subjective to the society/culture you are speaking of.

tanstaaf is correct, i beleive. Good is a point of view, nothing more and nothing less.

I think you can compare Evil to dread and good to honor.

I think Estel is right because your actions make you either honourable or dreaded. You get born with traits and everyone has different traits thus you can't say all humans are bad since it's probally balanced.

Yes, in war time, people are killing people in horrible and creative ways. Then, in WW2 when a man kills fifty soldiers on a machine gun, he is considered a hero. But what about those fifty soldiers who aren't coming back?

we have a natural sense to be good, and to help one another, but this instinct can be blotted out when you are young.