are all humans born bad? for being selfish is often considered being bad.?

Answer 1

All human beings are born with the capacity for both good & evil but each will allow one or the other to dominate. Hopefully the majority choose to be good! Certainly not everyone is selfish. There are people who are selfless & giving. People who devote their entire lives to helping others at their own expense. Some people are selfish but I don't think that this is necessarily "evil." If someone keeps to himself, it doesn't mean he's a bad person. Possibly just introverted & not social. Perhaps he has a distrust of people & avoids them. What is evil is deliberate cruelty: going out & hurting someone.

Many people confuse self love with selfishness. If a mother takes some time for herself (to take a cooking class, have a night out with the girls etc) she feels guilty & people may say she's selfish & should be home with the kids. But the truth is that you have to take time out for yourself to recharge. You can't spread yourself too thin. Sometimes you have to say no, even to close friends & family making demands on you. To some degree, you must put yourself first. If you don't love & take care of yourself you wind up depleted & burned out & will have nothing left to give anyone...

The short answer to your question (after my long-winded version!) is that no, most humans are good and I don't consider selfish to be necessarily bad. It could be worse. No one is put to jail for being selfish. They are locked up for hurting & killing others which goes beyond selfishness to being cruel.

Answer 2

I don't believe people are born bad, nor do I believe selfishness is bad. I do think we are all capable of doing immoral and harmful things but most of us learn how to temper that capability.

Selfishness is a basic part of human nature. I go with the school of thought that says there is no such thing as a selfless act. Even the most self-sacrificing act serves the ego in some way. Giving ones own life for another or a cause, for example, still allows that person to feel they have done something good.

Just because something serves ones own needs doesn't detract from the goodness that may come to others for it.

Similarly being overly self-sacrificing can be harmful both to oneself and to others. To use the same example what value is it to anyone to give up your life if there was another way to help another or a cause? Then it'd just be a wasted life no matter how good the intention.

Selfishness allows us to take care of ourselves and our own needs first so that we can be in a better position to help others.

Selfishness and greed are two completely different things. We just confuse them too easily.

Answer 3

"It represents an original lack, a shortcoming, which man has to rise out of and to outgrow. The long postponement of humanity's happiness is, for all the sorrow it entails, recognised by the spiritual mind to be a bounty of the All Merciful flowing from His love and His care for His creatures.

Man's upward movement out of spiritual incompleteness has its parallel and antetype in the story of the gradual creation of the world in the six days. Until material evolution reached its climax in the birth of man, imperfection reigned everywhere over land and sea. Fishes existed and ferns, and reptiles and birds, and the like; but there was as yet no form capable of registering the higher spiritual impulses; the purpose for which creation had been undertaken was unattained and undiscernible; and it was not until long ages after the body of man appeared, that the meaning of the process at last became evident and material evolution achieved a perfect result.

The period of world history covered by the Bible corresponds
to the five and a half days in the creation story before the
appearance of man. As there was then everywhere on the planet
material imperfection and incompleteness, and nothing else;
so likewise has there been spiritual imperfection and
incompleteness on the planet from the time of Adam onward.
Shortcomings, errors, ignorances, sins have been rife and have
played their evil part at every stage of man's journey. The
goal, the end, the purpose of man's spiritual creation has not
yet taken visible shape and the hour is not come for God a
second time to rest from His labours.

But humanity is not at a standstill. Humanity is on the move.
As in distant ages material evolution swept forward in ordered
triumph till at length it achieved its crowning work in man,
so thereafter has spiritual evolution been sweeping
irresistibly forward all the world over to achieve its purpose
of developing a regenerate race of men who shall indeed be as
children of God.

Man from the beginning is made in the likeness of God and
his essential manhood never changes. But this likeness at
first is rudimentary. It is no more than an embryo."

(George Townshend, The Heart of the Gospel, p. 20-)

Answer 4

I believe we are born with the choice of becoming what we want to be. The key word here is CHOICE. We are not born bad, but we Are sinful by nature because noone is perfect other than our creator. So in truth, wer are born with the capability of choosing to be bad--and conversely Good.

And as other people here have commented, there are factors like our environment and social surroundings that influence our choice to be 'bad', selfish, or good~!

Answer 5

I don't think humans are born bad. I think they are born imperfect and self-centered. In a baby, that isn't considered 'bad'. I believe their environment and society can affect whether they grow and mature into good, caring people, or whether they remain immature and selfish. No matter what, though, they will always be imperfect.

Answer 6

No, Humans are not born bad. It's the fallen angels that are going against the Lord hiding among people doing bad things. It's all in the bible.

Answer 7

Admirable question... my STAR!!

In a subtle way, the question makes the point that being selfish as such is not bad. Indeed taking care of self without being a burden on others is a virtue..... the virtue reverses only when one wishes or does harm to others in order to fulfill self interests. We learn this trade of trampling on others for moving up on our way, only as we grow in the society where resources are scarce and desires and wishes keep increasing to end up in cut-throat competition.

Answer 8

i think of the two completely 'lost' and Bryan H make good factors yet i might purely prefer to agree that calling human beings good or undesirable is the incorrect thank you to look at it.What they do could be known tremendously much as good or undesirable yet each and every physique is greater complicated than that and so is that this question.there is greater advantageous than genes and atmosphere to evaluate too and those are lined above besides.we are additionally loose and subsequently responsible i've got self assurance.someone can pick to go against his upbringing or modern-day circumstances and he or she or he may even go against their organic inclination (genes) in the event that they prefer to make your concepts up on the greater effective or nobler selection.the only ultimate question then is to define what's nice and this could be a vexed question as has been reported above.no remember if it somewhat is authentic that what's nice differences for the time of time and way of existence it is likewise authentic that there are it sluggish-honored standards straight forward to each and all the large religions and different existence stances like humanism for occasion.those incorporate do not scouse borrow,kill or rape, help your fellow guy, do not harm him/her, greater effective your self, etc, etc. to respond to your question quickly, we are inherently loose and how good or undesirable we are at a particular time relies upon on how we've used our freedom as much as that element and realising that our state could substitute the following day so labelling somebody good or undesirable will become pointless.

Answer 9

Great question...

I believe that people may be born with certain tendencies that lean one way or another... like selfishness...but I believe these tendencies can either be lessened or promoted by their surrounding environment .... and I don't necessarily call these tendencies "sin"..like the religious community believes everybody is born with sin..I call it human nature...nothing more or less......

Answer 10

All humans are born with a sinful nature, I wouldn't call it bad. We just need Jesus.