Do you trust people?

Question

Do you believe people are basically good, or basically foul, and must choose to be good?

I think people are basically good, but too often choose to be bad.

You?

Answer 1

The ones I've met are basically bad. Most of them don't care about other people enough. They just care about themselves and to heck with everyone else.

Answer 2

Well, to answer your first question, I do trust people. However, there is no one right now that I can trust 100%. It's my fault, because I'm paranoid like that =]

If I were to choose, people can be basically good. You do have a choice between being good and being bad. By now, most would now the difference between the two, and so it's the decision of having a good image towards yourself or just screw it up. The people who choose to be bad often have their reasons, but they can be good people as well. The people who are known for being good can rot into bad people as well, if they choose to. But everyone has their good and bad sides, so it's hard to say which they would normally and basically be.

Answer 3

Are dogs friendly or do they bite people? Anytime you try and make a statement about a class whose examples number above six billion (one billion is really really really really big; count off every second of every day for the next thirty years and you'll just about get to one billion) you are bound to make realitively useless generalizations. There are basically good people who choose to do foul things and there are basically bad people whose actions have good results, and there is everything in between. No single human being purely one thing or another. Or to quote the bard, "Nothing is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."

Answer 4

trust does not exist. Explanation: when you start questioning whether you can depend on someone for a certain reason, you already have the d0ubt. Therefore you are not depending on trust as soon as you have a doubt.
Example you give 10 bucks to your brother to go buy milk without even questioning whether he'll come back. But you would doubt to trust the person off the street right?

Answer 5

I think the first instinct of human nature is protection of self (and children). Usually people can accomplish these goals through kindness and goodness, but when protection of self is threatened, the moral fiber is put to the test. You know the rest of the story, right?

Answer 6

I don't universalize people based on my experience of individuals.

If you do as you say you will, I consider you trustworthy.
If you lie, I don't consider you honest.
If you harm others, I don't consider you trustworthy.
If you are late and inconsistent, I don't consider you trustworthy.
If you tell me that you harm others, my trust for you declines.
If you tell me that you are seeking revenge on others, you no longer have my trust.
If you gossip about others to me, then I no longer trust your integrity.

If you do most or all of the above, I wouldn't trust you in the least.

Trust then, is related to our action.

Answer 7

I tend to trust people singly, but never in groups. Singly a person listens to their heart. In groups, people often get caught up in the 'pack' mentality and fail to think for themselves.

Answer 8

I think people basically are nothing. The environment and circumference select wether a child would be good or naughty.

Answer 9

I just need to make sure people I hang around with often are trustworthy. The others; I need time to find out.

Answer 10

It's true that people are inherently good. too often he/she made choices that led him/her astray, ignoring his conscience and good nature.