Or do people become trustworthy and not trustworthy by their actions.
2006-10-06 11:56:39 · 9 answers · asked by J T 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
both
2006-10-06 11:57:37 · answer #1 · answered by Joe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The short answer is both.
This is a long debate. Some believe that people are born pure and with only good quality and that it is society and family that cause deviations. Some believe that people are born with egotistical impulses that are "tamed" by society through the agency of family. Some believe that people are born an "empty slate" and all good and negative tendencies are learned from society and family.
In all three cases society and family are really synonymous. They are also referred to as environmental factors.
Since the 18th century, the third option has been the dominant thought.
I would favour a synthesis of the three. I don't think that people are born with all good qualities, but I don't think that all "moral responses" are learned, either. To use your example, if there wasn't a core of trustworthiness within a person, how could they learn to be trustworthy? How would they understand what trustworthiness means? At the same time, without an impulse to be untrustworthy, how would a person know that it was the proper choice? In fact, without this tendency, would real trustworthiness really exist? In other words if trustworthiness and untrustworthiness were innate, would either be "right" or "wrong" ?
2006-10-06 20:34:53 · answer #2 · answered by Sincere Questioner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we all start off naturally trustworthy. It's our and others actions in life that help us to keep or lose our trustworthiness.
2006-10-06 12:08:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, some people were raised to be trustworthy and some were not.
2006-10-06 12:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by William E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes/no.
Some people are seemiingly born pathological liars. They can lie w/o physical symptoms or mental awareness.
All people are proven by their actions. Actions are the refining fire of life.
2006-10-06 11:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their parents teach them to cross on red lights, lie on the telephone (Sorry, Dad's not home right now), and to shoplift from Wal-Mart.
Smarter parents take the time to teach good things.
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2006-10-06 11:59:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
After a certain point in life....some people are just natural thieves, cheats and liars....you know who you are.
2006-10-06 12:02:52 · answer #7 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think actions and their mouth...peace to u
2006-10-06 11:59:50 · answer #8 · answered by poppysgirl70 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's like everything else
2006-10-06 11:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋