Good And Evil: Are Humans Inherently Good Or Evil

Everyday, people carry on with their lives knowing that there is both good and evil in the world. Some might distinguish the evil outweighing the good, while others spot the good outweighing the evil. Whichever side one might choose from this debate, it is natural that for humans to stop and wonder about humanity. A recurring controversy that crosses over a person's mind is whether humans are naturally and inherently good or, worse, they’re naturally and inherently evil. Society tends to lean on the idea that humans are selfish, in fact, 78% of the population believes others to be more selfish than they really are. Distinctly, one can determine that since none of the population can agree on whether or not humans are innately good or evil, we can visualize two opposing sides forming. …show more content…
Locke believed that humans would strive to go forward and advance in an absence of law and order, on the other hand, Hobbes believed that humans would be at constant war if left in a natural state. There seem to be two prominent sides in the debate over good versus evil, but there is also a diverse and expandable middle ground. Correspondingly humans are born neutral with a whole world to shape them into a person with evil tendencies or righteous tendencies. Subsequently humans are clean malleable slates that can be shaped by societal reactions, one’s environmental raising, and situations that one can find themselves in and how they are to