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2006-08-06 21:09:04 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Psychology

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I think inherently people are good. Everyone deep down has empathy for the suffering of others. It is was is taught to us through a lifetime that makes us loose sight of that empathy and focus on our own misguided teachings and misjudgments.

2006-08-06 21:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by Lasher702 3 · 0 1

Sometimes in life you would be face to face with people who seem so bad and cruel to you! Their actions and opinions wouldn't make sense to you. They would seem only senseless and impractical. However, just remember once, that even the most hard and seemingly bad people have their own reasons..

Sometimes human beings can remain good even in the worst circumstances.
Sometimes circumstances change people, harden people, make them bad!
Perhaps if you look at the world from their eyes, you would also react same like them!!
However there are some people on this earth killing and destroying lives. These terrorists, as we call them, must be having reasons, but no reason in this world is reason enough to take an innocents life.
THose are the bad people, and they seem to be increasing
However, i dont think its going to be for long :)

And you cant even blame todays children. They are being brought up in such a negative enviroment of criminality and terrorism, that theyre behaviours and being molded in such a way that was highly unacceptable some years back!

2006-08-06 22:37:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

More problems are indirectly caused by good people who do nothing than by the evil people who actively run the world and are out numbered 1000 to 1.

However, it's the evil people and pseudoreligious psychopaths in the government who respect no rules of law and order and control most power, military, political and financial, merely because they don't let rules or genuine moral convictions get in their way.

Gone are the days when we could actually take corrupt leaders down by popular force when fed up to the limits of endurance with their flagrant corruption.

The leaders of today, USA especially, one of the worst human rights violators documented in world history, would simply invoke laws that declare their own citizens to be terrorists for demanding their promised Constitutional rights and readily imprison and/or exterminate them by turning its own WMD against them without the slightest pangs of conscience before allowing its corruption to be deposed.

To paraphrase an old saying:
Laws are like spider webs to the wealthy but like chains to the poor.

The worst enemy of the government today is its own citizens and they know it too. That's why the Hitlerian and Stalinistic laws are being passed to disarm the public in slow degrees.

Why should the government fear the citizens when they have made them too ignorant to know the truth by the skilled use of propaganda that would even make their Nazi mentors proud and who also controls the power to destroy any citizens who see them for what they really are and try to stop them ?

They don't care, they don't have to and just what are you gonna do about it ?

I thought so.




"It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Hermann Goering
Nazi Reichmarshall and Luftwaffe-Chief
At the Nuremberg Trials after World War II




"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

G.W. Bush - Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005


George W. Bush has stated he'd prefer to be a dictator at least three times.

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier."
Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.

(Governing Magazine 7/98)
-- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?"


"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.

-- CNN.com, December 18, 2000


"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it,"
[Bush] said.

-- Business Week, July 30, 2001



Well, it looks like he's getting his wish. God bless Amerika !

Fear does have its advantages, especially when you are the biggest cause of it.

2006-08-06 22:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by Jay T 3 · 0 0

I think people are getting worse, unfortunately. Jay Leno reported on his show recently that a study done shows that people are generally getting more rude. Rudeness is at an all-time high. We are human, with both traits of good and evil in all of us. We all sin, we all are fallable. Sometimes you gotta wonder if people ENJOY being evil. What does it gain a person to laugh at another human being's misfortune? Does it really make them feel all warm and fuzzy inside? If so, then that means they have a big goose egg for a conscience.

2006-08-06 21:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by snafu1 2 · 0 0

People are pretty bad all through out history due to religion, to many holy wars, and thats really bad cause religion I thought was supposed to be about peace, but people kill each other cause the other guy over there doesnt believe in what I believe.

2006-08-06 21:29:42 · answer #5 · answered by jhnedrmr 3 · 0 0

i think more than people, its the circumstances around them that make them good or bad. its all a complex system of balance between a persons own innate nature, his bringing up, then the surroundings, and finally how each one responds to the same situation
sometimes good people behave irrationally and vice versa.

its only if one decided to take a stand for oneseslf and trell oneself thsat i choose to be good as much of the time as possibe , or that i choosae to be what my impulses tell me to be at aNY GIVEN TIME-WHETHER ITS TERMED BAD OR GOOD DOESNT MATTER TO ME-that a person can be categorised as esssentially good or essentially bad. otherwise, they just go on picking their way through life as it comes, acting according to the situation.

2006-08-06 22:26:07 · answer #6 · answered by anon 2 · 0 0

I asked this to a friend of mine a long time ago.

Are people inherently good or inherently evil?

She replied, "People are inherently human."

The social theory, however, is that people are born evil and made good by society.

But evil is simply a point of view.

"God kills indiscriminately," said Lestat, the famous vampire from Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

So the vagueness of your question can only lead vagueness in responses.

Good luck, though.

2006-08-06 21:25:05 · answer #7 · answered by Mario E 5 · 0 0

I think people are incredibly selfish, which tends to make their actions more bad than good, even if their intentions for the most part are good.

2006-08-06 21:14:25 · answer #8 · answered by Tonks_Fan! 4 · 0 0

I think they are more good but fall into bad from time to time.

2006-08-06 21:14:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

There are people who are good because the fear the consequences of not being good. I call them "conditional".

There are people who are good because they are good. These people are, you guessed it, called "good".

There are people who are good as long as you are watching them. These people are call "kids".

There are people who are just plain bad. They are, in number and category, outnumbered by the good. Generally speaking.

2006-08-06 22:06:55 · answer #10 · answered by virgoascendant 3 · 0 0

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