People Are Naturally Evil

How do people operate? What is evil? Why are there so many evil people on the planet? What is wrong with society? How do people mentally fortify to the point where compassion to other people’s pain and suffering is barred entry by a seemingly impenetrable surface? Perhaps this hardened exterior is inborn; an innate feature that served an evolutionary purpose, or perhaps the social dynamics emerging from a maladaptive society with a toxic ideology encourage such behavior.
If we relied on the assumption that people do not view themselves as evil, but instead as complex, multi-dimensional individuals who do not themselves in to good or bad categories. The following is an investigation into the matter of evil, and some potential underlying causes:
• Selfishness: o Ego-overshadowing- This is somewhat the …show more content…
Evil things can occur when excessive consideration is given to one’s own ego over others. The perception of self, with its self-evident verification of your existence, far exceeds the reality of whatever is outside. Although it is rational to assume that everyone’s existence is as rich and complex as yours, the fact is that this knowledge is not as visceral and intuitive as your own existence. Despite everyone experiencing a similar, coherent reality, only you have first-person evidence of all which exists in the world, of transcendent concepts like love or evil, and these perceptions fill the vast depths of your experience. To even truly extricate from the grips of selfishness is difficult to pin down, for can a person fully act in altruism? With evolutionary theory, it is clear to see that all of our actions serve a purpose. This purpose is not the clear intention of Mother Nature, it is through the interaction of logical elements in the Universe—a predictable environment; predictable lifeforms operating on mechanisms governed by physics, chemistry, and biology; and the