Agree or Disagree - Humans are intrinsically evil

[el_bryanto]

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[shenmue]

1. See, I told you

Pressing buttons is good!

[rrneck]

2. Humans are intrinsically human. nt

[Isoldeblue]

3. I love people;

it's human nature that sucks....

That's a quote I'd heard years ago, but can't remember who, for the life of me.

[edhopper]

4. I heard it as

I love mankind, it's people who suck.

Or as K said in Men in Black; " A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."

[Isoldeblue]

6. I've heard that too.

Here's another gem. "Never corner anyone or anything meaner than you."

[Jim__]

5. Easy to be Hard

[Isoldeblue]

7. I love that song!

Thanks for that great blast from the past, Jim.

I had a really good friend, who has passed. We used to bemoan the fact that we weren't born shallow, instead of being painfully aware of injustice, half-jokingly.

That isn't an easy way to be, as many here on DU can attest to.......

[cbayer]

8. There are some evil people, of that I have no doubt.

But the vast majority of people are good. Hapless at times, but good.

[skepticscott]

9. Define "inherently"

and define "evil"

Then we'll talk...

[el_bryanto]

10. You don't have a dictionary?

Inherently - derived from inherent, which means " involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit"

Evil - : morally bad : causing harm or injury to someone

There you go.

Bryant

[skepticscott]

11. Yes I've heard of those things called "dictionaries"

And those who are actually familiar with them know that the words they contain often have many different meanings, or shades of meaning. Something which has ironically sped right past you, since you actually cite multiple meanings here.

And even so…if an 8 year old shoplifts a candy bar from a store, is that morally bad? Yes. Is it "evil"? Not by any sensible definition. If a linebacker tackles a running back hard and tears his ACL, has he caused him injury? Yes. Is what he's done "evil"? Ridiculous. So clearly neither of your definitions applies here.

Try again. See if you can find definitions that actually apply to your original question, because without those, it's worthless.

[cleanhippie]

12. Your use of the word "evil" is ambiguous at best.

As you defined it to anothe poster,

Evil - : morally bad : causing harm or injury to someone

Still leaves it open to interpretation. For example, many religious believers think it is "morally bad" and "causes harm" to society to be LGBT, so it follows that by that use, being LGBT is "evil."

Surely YOU don't think being LGBT is evil, right? Yet many religious believers do.

Until you provide a specific definition of "evil", how can your question even begin to be answered?

[struggle4progress]

13. I'd guess most folk show a wild mix of characteristics, and the very same personality features

that might sometimes be described as "good" could in other circumstances seem "evil," depending on who benefits or does not benefit

[okasha]

14. A better question is whether human beings

are genetically predisposed to violence. Studies of chimpanzees in the wild suggest that we may be.