![]() ![]() Surely, I’m not arguing that there are no bad people. Many of these people are a product of the environments, of their societies. These days, it may seem that there are more bad people than good, but I’m here to say that I think that there are a bunch of good people who make bad decisions and who have learned bad things in their lives. ![]() We don’t need social constructs and governments to hold us down and prevent bad nature to come out. I think many of us have seen how people can develop into those types of people certainly but I don’t think that that is within human nature. I am of the thought, very much like Jean-Jacques Rousseau that humans in their most basic elements are pure and good, as opposed to Hobbes’ idea that people are naturally selfish and evil. After about an hour of reading through some classic philosophical excerpts and recalling my high school and college-level knowledge of philosophical concepts, I decided to take a stand.Īt this point, I’d say essentially that I don’t think that anyone is born good or born evil and that the behavior is learned in their formative years, through society, and through their culture. ![]() I’m going to start by saying that I went down an insane philosophical rabbit hole to figure out how I wanted to respond to this. Attributed to Jean-Marc Nattier - /History/Carnegie/kant/portrait.html, Public Domain, ![]()
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