Is every person on earth good? Are there really people who choose to do what they know is wrong?

Answer 1

everyone on earth is born good they choose what they think is right regardless of if you think it's right.

Answer 2

You see things through the eyes of a non-hostile person, thus you don´t understand what can possibly motivate someone to hurt another person. Many people choose to hurt others because it makes them feel good, secure, superior and sometimes even sexually aroused. Most of it is driven by instinct, but sometimes can be born by acquired behavior. There are enough butchers in the pages of History to demonstrate. Your definition of good is probably to be considerate, which I personally respect more than anything else, however, you should never judge others through the filter of your own ethics or you will be extremely disappointed or even could land in a dangerous situation.

Answer 3

There are many people who choose to do wrong.

They make that choice because they were raised in an environment which rewarded bad behavior.

They didn't get attention unless they misbehaved.... and negative attention was better than none at all.

They gained reward by stealing money from the cookie jar.
They learned that they are good at that, and continued to steal.

They know that it is wrong, but they don't care, because their life conditioning has proven to them that they have to do wrong to get gratification. Nothing was given to them when they were being good.

Parents... think about that. Act accordingly.

Answer 4

I think every person is good, its just that the circumstances that they probably grow are not the best. You can add to that list peer pressure and the decisions they make. And, of course there are people who choose to do what they know is wrong, I mean, look at killers, robbers, drug dealers, and that is just some extreme examples.

Answer 5

There are plenty of people who choose to do wrong knowing it is wrong. And not all these people are physcopaths either. Some people truly believe that crime does pay, and by the sentencing of some offenders it seems like it does, so will do anything up to and including taking another human life to get their needs satisfied.

Answer 6

Yes, of course there are EVIL people in the world. Think Jeffrey Dahmer, and serial killers, etc.

No matter where I go, I always remember this one thing: "no matter how safe the area looks, there is always someone within a 2 block radius that would kill me just for being who I am." i.e., a gay white male. If they didn't kill me for being gay, they would for being white. While this may seem "over the top" I have been beaten on more than one occasion requiring 70 stitches to my "face and head alone" and that was just from walking out of a store to the car. So, never take it for granted that "your safe," anywhere and always park as close as possible to where your going if it's late.

Be safe!

Answer 7

No, not every person on earth is good. But every person has the potential to be....it is individual choice.

We all have a choice of choosing right or wrong.

Answer 8

of course everyone on the earth isnt good. People do choose to do what is wrong because they are socially ill, it may not be as simple as bad or good, something is missing in them

Answer 9

I don't think the people that choose to do wrong things think they are doing "wrong." They see the setbacks they cause other people as necessary things for a bigger purpose, and they can therefore accept the results... people like this are sociopathic... Sociopaths have no conscience and therefore don't understand the negative impacts that their behaviors have on others..

Answer 10

In harmony with Mia 2Ks answer of operant conditioning or rather misoperational conditioning, the concepts 'right' and 'wrong' themselves are subject to differences of philosophy, ideology and religion wherein law sets the transient contingents that turns right to wrong and wrong to right.

Now, in relation to the question itself, individualism is an idea that seems to oppose 'individual' against 'collective right'. Might makes right: If I choose that as a principle to enforce, then any wrong I may do to increase my might to create my right would be right.

Answer 11

There is the fundamental desire to perceive and act with fine clear rightfulness, and there is the opposite desire, to perceive and act with crude blind wrongfulness. The latter desire is much more common than the former. There are also people that have neither desire, who simply act out of self-interest, regardless of whether their acts are rightful or wrongful.

One of the manifestations of the desire to perceive and act with crude blind wrongfulness is the belief that there is no right and wrong.