& not evil? Do you believe being evil is something we learn to be as a result of environment or other exterior factors? Do you believe we were inherently born good /innocent?
Do you agree with the notion that we as humans are born good?
You could have to look at it like this you are an empty shell you come onto this planet with your parents if your parents are happy-go-lucky you're going to be calm and happy go lucky if your parents are fighting all the time yelling and screaming throwing things at each other that's what you're going to become that's all you see that's all you acknowledge and know that's how you think life is if your parents are loving and kind to you each and every day and do the best things in the world for you to teach you that's who you become If your parents yell scream fight bitch bark Bite manipulate if they're a cheater if they're a liar if they're Thief that's your everyday Norm that's who you believe and how you believe life is that's who you become so it's not your fault but then at 18 you move out Friends start coming over you start doing things and you see life in a different way you go to other people's homes and see their parents and you see life in a different way how their kid is being treated and then you have a choice knowing that you were raised wrong you have a moment in time to where you acknowledge it and you can change it and if you don't you're going to be fucked for the rest of your life look at all the people on here look at all the men that hate women look at the way that they talk to the women on here the reason why they do that is because that's how their father talked to their mother you would think at their age they would know better but they don't because they think that's the norm it's really kind of sucked up if you ask me but also at the same time the girls that they do that too they know the difference and all they have to do is put a block on them and it's over with
I think we are born a clean slate. So being good or evil is what we are taught to be during our development years. Also we learn a lot by what we are shown by the people around us, rather then what we are told. For example of a child grows up around parents with a dysfunctional and abusive relationship, without help that will be the relationship they will seek out or create when they get older.
I don't believe in the idea that people are good or evil at all, let alone born that way. I believe that people are pretty neutral, and aim to be "good," whatever that means to them. Serial killers still see themselves as the hero of their own stories, after all.
Nobody of sound mind does evil things for the sake of doing evil things; People do things that either benefit themselves, or they benefit someone they want to see in a better place than where they are currently. Sometimes both. Sometimes one imitates the other.
Yeah the moment they take birth they are good but after few days they may pick up negativity from their surroundings. Of course they are innocent the time they take birth because they are at 0 level. Not in minus (negative) nor plus (positive).
Good, no; innocent, yes. Any moral philosopher will tell you that sin cannot exist without moral agency, and a newborn baby doesn't really have that. Logically, if there can be no sin, there can also be no virtue, and since good is considerably more than the absence of evil, you can't be good if you have no capacity for evil.
To put it another way: a newborn human is no more or less evil than a newborn kitten. We have the capacity- pretty much the inevitability- to transcend that mere animal nature and become something more- or something less.
I'm an optimist and I look for the good in everyone and everything. I personally think that each of us is born basically good, with a bit of evil. (If there was no evil, what does good mean?) We spend our lives trying to maximize the good and minimize the evil. For various reasons, some people are more successful at that than others.
No, humans have no inherent "alignment" of good and evil. Those are arbitrary social constructs we have to learn as we grow up.
Children are de facto psychopaths, without the cognitive ability to feel empathy or to differentiate "right" from "wrong". Those values need to be taught and explained as the child's brain matures.
Everyone is born with a sin nature. It is up to you whether you indulge this nature or not. So no, we are not born good. We are, as babies, born innocent, until you know the difference between good and evil. Some turn to evil and others to good.
I think evil can be both innate and externally influenced. Like, even really young kids will hit other kids or rips toys out from their hands. But I'm also not actually entirely certain if this is evil because I don't think they understand what they're doing is causing is causing suffering to some extent to another conscious being. But I still think that evil can be both innate and learned.
No... I've known two twin brothers since the minute they were born ( in the family )... One of them is literally an angel since day one.. And the other one... Since the minute I saw him I knew he was evil lmao.. I was right... He's only 4 years now but he's showing terrible characteristics
Humans are inherently evil. Your parents have to teach you not to steal, not lie, not be selfish and all the bad stuff you do as kid because it comes naturally to us.
The human thoughts exposes their evil nature as Jesus Christ taught evil thoughts come from the heart.
Inherently good nature begins won't suffer from evil thoughts as their nature is pure and good by nature.
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No…I think we’re born neutral. We are narcissistic and want what’s best for us. We do like helping others as it makes us feel good, but how many human tragedies must there be before we drop the idea we’re all good inside.
Humans have no good or bad. That is down to how they are raised or society
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Babies are selfish but we forgive them because they have in order to survive as they have no other way of communicating yet. From the very beginning stages I think we are more neutral.
Right answers for everything? :D Oh, so can it tell me how to fix my car or computer? No, of course not. The Bible isn't right about anything at all, the people who wrote it believing the earth to be flat for example, and that the value of pi is precisely 3 (it isn't, by the way).
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