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Are we naturally good or evil /lit/?

>> No.15121918
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Doesn’t change a damn thing

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>> No.15121930

we care too much about whether we are good or evil

>> No.15121940

>>15121906
We are naturally ambiguous.

>> No.15121973

I think there are naturally defective, mentally ill people predisposed to evil. I've met a few myself. They will never understand reason, they are drawn to malice by their very nature. For them, only the most short-sighted self-interests exists.
People are just fundamentally different. Not everyone thinks like educated western people do. Most western people I would not describe as "good" but rather tame. They are simply socialized in a way where their behavior is not a product of their own morality or a philosophical system but rather a habit and a product of the way they were raised.

>> No.15121979

>>15121906
we are goodevil

>> No.15122022

>>15121906
Men are not born equal. This question has no answer because different men have different natural predispositions.

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That is a complicated question. I know we have the capacity for evil and the capacity for good, butI think the substance of our lives greatly informs whether we act more evil or more good. Unfortunately, some people suffer from illnesses (e.g. sociopathy) which makes them care less for others and greatly raises their capacity for evil. And it doesn't help any that oftentimes, we're rewarded with better lives when we are more evil. But that we recognize such things as "unfortunate illnesses" perhaps exhibits that we all have a greater understanding of good/evil than we'd like to acknowledge. Tough to say. But I wish we had no free will to choose what we did.

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>>15121906
>>15121973
Depends on inherited trauma and trauma suffered to environment. We are all surpressing trauma and traumatizing each other.
The only solution is to dissolve it ,it has its roots in ego and to realize our innermost nature. Moralfagging religions are retarded and do not work only genuine change when urge to do evil is dissolved and one is connected to source can there be an underlying benevolence from which he acts from.
t. had evil urges and thoughts in a feeding loop before awakening

>> No.15122331
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15122331

>Good
>Evil
Ahem

>> No.15122353

>>15121940
Based

>> No.15122378

>>15121906
Meaningless question. We do what we need to, to survive. If a person grows up thinking they need to fight with and compete against others, and be selfish, that's how they'll be. If they grow up thinking they're better off working with other people, and being agreeable and generous, that's how they'll be.

>>15122331
Max is right about this one.