Problem 1: define evilsome ppl think nothing wrong with murder, while others think of it to be the worst thing in the world.Really too complicated of a question to answer and you asked it like there was a simple answer
Are humans basicly....?
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, Mar 29 2005 02:34 AM
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 07:19 AM
they are both if not they would be perfect
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 05:20 PM
Humans are both good and evil, we all have our flaws which make us who we are.
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 06:00 PM
I think Humans can be either good or evil, it depends on what they want to be and how you look at it. B)
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 06:09 PM
We (humans) can be both good or evil depending on the situation and how they were raised
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Posted 13 September 2008 - 06:37 PM
It's a matter of nurture, and evil isn't specific enough, is murder evil? Or is stealing from the cookie car evil?I just say we're good people who make bad decisions.
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Posted 14 September 2008 - 02:50 AM
we cant really judge, most people do evil things but we dont know better most of the timeI agree with companion cube, by the way companion cube, did you play the orange box?
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Posted 15 September 2008 - 12:22 AM
I think humans are evil because they are improving the world for themselves and because we are selfish people
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Posted 15 September 2008 - 08:40 AM
We're all good. Anything evil is caused by trauma, like a warp in our minds.
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Posted 15 September 2008 - 09:13 AM
Humans are a mix of good and evil
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Posted 16 September 2008 - 03:47 AM
I agree with you. Humans (especially when drunk) are base creatures. In the end, our instincts win.Humans basically?So what are humans stripped down to basics?Hunters, providers, cookers, survivalists? You're talking cave-man style.Sure enough Cave men couldn't launch a nuclear weapon but each has the potential to kill still. Humans are no different from any other animal in theory, in basics, they kill for food end of.
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 12:24 AM
i doubt there is any evil people although there probably arent good people either
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 12:27 AM
It depends, people may be good but others think it's fun or nothing wrong to kill people, like someone randomly killing someone near my area.
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Posted 25 September 2008 - 03:46 AM
I rate myself as evil but there r so many ppl who r damn goodIn my opinion i think kinda evil guys r the sexiest ( some of them )
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Posted 26 September 2008 - 04:20 AM
you cant say if they ae good or evil there are a lot of us and we are different
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Posted 28 September 2008 - 05:58 PM
This is tricky question, but let us boil it down to something that can actually be discussed. What is good? What is evil? I will define good to be one who puts other people in front of himself, and evil as one who always puts himself in front of others. This definition itself may be controversial, so here is my reasoning. "Good" changes in different cultures, as does "Evil". We view good and evil from a view inside one culture. Good people follow the rules of the culture, bad people do not. However, when there are rules that define a culture it as about interactions between people. If the laws and rules were every man for themselves, rules would not be needed. As it happens, rules exist to tell people when they should do things for other people, like paying taxes, jury duty, not killing, not stealing: all instances of checking your natural drive to act only for yourself. That makes people who break these rules, whatever they happen to be bad, and people who do it knowing they are breaking the rules and take pleasure in breaking rules are called evil. What this boils down to is putting your own desires or the desires of others first. Now that this is sort of explained, we can continue the discussion. For a human to continue to exist, he has to find a mate and reproduce. In this process itself there is a contradiction. To attract a mate you need to sacrifice your own needs on occasion, but you are doing so for a inherently self-serving goal, namely to ensure your families survival. Neitzche says that all humans are self serving, but realize they need to interact with others to survive. According to this, people are naturally "evil", but pretend to be "good". So if someone is good enough at always being "good" whenever he is around people, there is no way to tell him from a really good person. At that point, the distinction is meaningless. So in accordance with Hobbes and Neitzche, I think all humans are at base self serving, but at the same time, do to rules, laws, and birth into a rigid society, do their best to be "good".
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Posted 28 September 2008 - 08:53 PM
I think they start out neutral and are influenced by those around them.
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Posted 28 September 2008 - 11:03 PM
Well i want to think that people are BASICALLY good.Because Jesus Christ didn't die because of our sins(BAD)it is because of the goodness within us. 
(well that was what the seminarist tell us when we had watch The Passion of Christ.. 
(well that was what the seminarist tell us when we had watch The Passion of Christ..
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Posted 28 September 2008 - 11:10 PM
everyone follows their own path so it can't be generalized. We are kind've a plague though.
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Posted 29 September 2008 - 01:05 AM
neither. civilization just corrupts us and turns us either one way or another. like in the wild. kill to eat, neither good or bad, it's just the way of life
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Posted 29 September 2008 - 01:12 AM
Humans are human. They never do only good or only evil, so labeling them as either doesn't make alot of sense.
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Posted 29 September 2008 - 02:06 AM
Everyone has evil and good within themselves.So both.
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Posted 24 October 2008 - 09:18 AM
i do agree that humans are born good...
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Posted 24 October 2008 - 10:22 AM
the ideal of "good" and "evil" is silly, there is no such thing as absolutely "right" or "wrong"in fact, relative morals are also quite sillyhumans are born self-centred. we care for things that will benefit for ourself, be it mental satisfaction or physical satisfaction. we are all essentially selfish, and even the most selfless acts are done for this thing called "social image"
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Posted 24 October 2008 - 11:20 AM
there nothing like that. but I believe human lived to want something and wish for it. so it is greed and thus abit evil I guess
