What is your view on human nature?

Question

I think human nature is very intriguing, it depends on a pessimist's view or an optimist's view


I know how I feel, but I wanna know how you feel and think of each other

Answer 1

It is what it is.

Answer 2

I think some are born with certain predispositions and the rest is circumstantial. If one looks at the Ten Commandments (for example) it is easy to see that they were born out of necessity as stealing, lying, adultery and of course murder are still very human qualities.
Then again benevolence, charity, compassion are no less human
So the question: “Are humans naturally good or evil” is un-answerable because as of this writing we are still very much both.
Actually, I'd say all humans are born indifferent; we are all callous beings by nature and rely on mere instinct to survive. Our so called "conscience" and "morals" stem from our upbringing and surroundings, and therefore cannot be attributed to birth-right. After all, every persons views on good and evil are skewed a bit from the next person; Anyway thats all for now! :D

Answer 3

huamn nature is a single fixed law that everything else, the point of views we have, the fact that we think need love,need,"own", are am. is whatever, everthing we "are" or "are not" is grown from. think about nature for a sec. If you plant a tree and give it everything it needs wants loves so on, and it grows but the wind blows at it from one direction its whole life changeing the way the branches grow and a landslide covers its trunk, hideing its face then lighting hits it, it burns but lives to grow a bit more, then one day theres a flash flood and the tree roots and all is swpet away. the tree is gone and dead.ask your self, "why did it grow in the first place". just like the tree, planted grue, the envorment around it changed its face, its look, its place on the soil, but in the end it was still only a tree....just like us. we can go thu whatever life thorws at us, it can change our face, our soil, it can change our lives, but in the end, whan the flood comes, we still feel the same, are the same, were still just human. Thats human nature

Answer 4

Human nature is not that intriguing as you put it.Humans are the most 'devilish' living creature on earth.Imagine we invented torture,millions or more ways of making our fellow humans suffer and billions of ways to kill our fellows.The human nature is self-destructive.What we build we bring it down some ways.
This what we have ben doing for ages ever since we realised our difference with the other living things around us.

Answer 5

very interesting, a lot of theories in the social sciences, and the sciences and in everyday life are just put down to 'thats human nature' without a serious look at the concept, human nature. i'd be very careful: i often wonder if there can even BE something like human nature at all! i mean, supposedly we're all different (though lots of us do act the same all the time)...human action is based on a lot of intervening factors, like desire and power and fear. i would suggest that these are where the prime motivators for our actions are rather than in something nebulous like human nature, which is all too often used politically. for example, what if we assumed, like Hobbes does, that human nature is evil - what implications would that have for a policy of pre-emptive crime prevention?

Answer 6

There is no such "thing" as "human nature"- save the instinctual drive to eat, reproduce, sleep, etc. What we deem "human nature" is the result of the exogonous factors that shape the individual- culture, religion, government, etc. If the individual is born and raised under a bloodthirsty capitalist system (United States of America), the he will adapt to fit this environment by becoming greedy and selfish. If the individual is born into a cooperative gift economy (libertarian socialism, or anarchism), then he will adapt to fit in that environment by becoming cooperative and a productive member of his culture. It ultimately comes down to adaptation- all organisms must adapt to their external environment or die out, if you want "good", productive, non-violent, cooperative human beings, maybe you should examine the environment they develop in, and alter their environment to naturally select for said positive traits, rather than just deem one single culture's (western culture) result as "universal human nature", especially when there are numerous counter-examples

Answer 7

Certain aspects are magnificent, but on the other hand some are horrifying. We love and laugh and teach and learn and create life. Then we also hate and destroy and scold and punish and kill. Sometimes I look at the human race and I feel ashamed, at what we do to ourselves, our planet, our loved ones, animals, children, our future. Sometimes, I don't think our species is worthy of living on this planet.... but then someone will do something nice out of the blue, or I see my boyfriends smile, or I hear a funny joke and I remember that everyone has good and bad in them, it all depends on what we focus on.

Answer 8

very interestingkkkkk
one thing i know is ,, change is the only constant,,
as is the nature of all things,human and plant,,spirit
we should live in harmony with the nature of things, the seasons

most people operate from a point of refrence that they have from past experiences,,
that is what human nature is,,an opinion based on their life experience to that point in time,,,
but and enlightend ones,,,myself lets say, and maybe you
understan that this moment in time, by the time you read this it, will be part of your past,,
i i try hard to work from a base of living in the momnent, and looking froward to what the furure may hold,,


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Answer 9

Human Nature is not the best song on the Thriller album.
Though it's a good song, I'd have to put Billie Jean and Beat it and maybe even Pretty Young Thing before it.

Answer 10

It is totally diversified.
Normally what people believe or information fed with is false. The actions or behaviour of humans based on that is information is harmful but people doesn't know and do all those things which are harmful to them.

When a few people try to educate with realities, the vested parties see to that they are ended. People like socretes and many philosophers and scientists were not spared.

Answer 11

I am an optimist (most of the time). But I believe that Human nature is sinfull. (blah, blah, blah... religion--->hey, you asked)
I think people can be good, but if we follow our first instinct it is normally to better ourselves than to benifit others.

I guess it's like survival of the fittest... I want that cookie & I am hungry, so I'll take the cookie and eat it; even if i cant afford to buy it. that's human nature, but upon applying morals and society standards, we either make the decision to act upon our human nature or rely on our values.