Do you think that people are naturally Good or naturally Evil?

United States
June 24, 2007 6:03pm CST
I think that people are generally animalistic, not good or evil. Most people just worry about themselves and their family, but also we have a tendency to care about others. As far as questions like this go, its easy to think in terms of black and white, in reality, people are a vast shade of gray.
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8 responses
27 Jun 07
i dont think its easy to say people are naturally good or evil ita difficult to know it depends on your life but definately people have characters and follow how their personality goes so if you are more good youll be drawn to more good things and if youre more bad to bad
• United States
28 Jun 07
Thanks, mbm!
@sacrg793 (429)
• China
25 Jun 07
i think people are naturally good, if everyone is wealthy and content with his or her life, i think there aren't any criminals like burglary or killing and anything else, only the society and the environment makes man do that. if that is ture and the people still do crims, i think they have some kind of mental illness.
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@coferbox (298)
• United States
25 Jun 07
I think people can go either way. I think everyone has at least a little good in them and I also think that anyone if pushed to far can go a little evil. We make a choice on how we want to live our life. It seems most people make an effort to live life being good. Some people sadly seem to go for the evil side.
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@roniroxas (10559)
• Philippines
25 Jun 07
well i think people have a evil side. just like the song says DEVIL INSIDE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HAS A DEVIL INSIDE. but it is up to us to control it. we should always pray for guidance and always open our hearts. when angry we should take deep breaths before we take our anger into actions.
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@maehan (1439)
• United States
13 Jul 07
There is a saying in chinese three character classic. When we are born, human are good. Confucian ethic also indicate that human change their character with the environment, that's mean the companion and his learning will lead him to bad or good. What do you think?
@jade1986 (563)
• India
13 Jul 07
I think people are naturally innocent. They cannot be described as good or bad. When first born, they might inherit something good and something bad, but it is their upbringing which gives them their true nature. It entirely depends on the environment as well as the education. I think people are born as innocent and eventually they choose their trait...
@babykay (2131)
• Ireland
13 Jul 07
I think you are right, most people are shades of grey. But there can be no doubt that some people are mostly evil-and do evil things and wish to do even more evil things. There seem to be others who are good and their whole lives are devoted to doing good. But the majority of us are somewhere in between with occasional flashes of black or white! The important thing to remember is that grey is made from the 2 colours.
@tikensoup (227)
• Mauritius
29 Jun 07
I think human nature is an addition of man at his very best and also of the very worse animal instincts. Man has found many ways to keep his dark side under control. With education, religion and so many other ways. However sometimes it takes little to unleash the beast.