Do you believe...?

Question

...that there is SOMETHING good in each and every person?

Answer 1

Yes i think so but it`s harder to find in some than others....

Answer 2

We tend to rejoice when able to do something recognisably and understandably good, and then we also have tendency to feel sad whenever we end up behaving otherwise. Then may be this is mere the part of our social education, an acquired taste nurtured into proper moral sense but all derived from external motives. Then it is possible that we are neither good, not bad, just people seeking to fulfil our needs the best wasy we can? Or may be, may be we are bad, or flawed, by nature, and that we are kept from self-destruction merely by our own inabilities, and the limitations of a physical world around us, that is a kind of ‘safe prison’ for us. These and other questions similar to this type often grace the rostrums of philosophical debate on moral and ethical issues of mankind.

There is nothing fixed in human nature but proclivities and inclinations to do either good or bad by a choice, that human beings are neither good nor bad. Then if it all depends upon our choice then why do we make some good choices and some bad? Is it that when we choose to do something bad, we do so out of ignorance or something wicked in us; then when we choose to do something good against all odds what it it that enables us to do so: a better outcome, or our very nature.

Human nature is hierarchical in the division of its needs, starting from most physical at the bottom and rising to spiritual at the top. In my personal view it is our ability to realise that we could have something better if we sacrifice something of inferior nature. This is what enables all of us to act in a good way. Then yes there is some good in each of us. Some are able to realise it better while others are not there yet. A person would never be with completely good or entirely bad. And any attempts to be as such are in facts traps of personal idealisation. We can however choose to do good or bad.

Answer 3

There is something good within each person, even the most hate filled ones. Everyone is born with a blank slate. Naturally balanced to be both good and bad. What makes someone use that good is either enhanced or chained inside by his or her life experience. Life is not about good or bad, but how you live it. We as people cause others not to see the good within them. Honestly, when was the last time you treated someone you didn't like nicely? How many grim faces do we pass everyday without making the effort to pass on the torch of humanity? And if you do and it's rejected----Smack'em in the head. They had it coming.

Answer 4

Yes, but it's difficult to find and see in some. Someones good might be someone else's bad of course; that makes it difficult to judge!
Someones good may be for the wrong reasons, may have an ulterior motive that's not so good, for example.
OK, cynical bit over - people generally live for a very long time. Our actions, feelings, how we make other people feel, our short term and long term impact on the rest of humanity, our 'good deeds', how we make our decisions etc etc, all mount up over the years; there is bound to be 'good' in everyone at the some point during their life time.

Answer 5

of course there is good in every person even if all your good sides are only shown when your a child no one is born bad mentally unstable yes raised bad yes but not born bad children are all born kinda the same in the aspect that all children know is love even if for the first 2 or 3 years all they see around them is hate and destruction they are still wanting to hug kiss show affection and receive affection as they get older they may or may not be that kind of person but everyone has good in them at some point

Answer 6

There was a kid in our neighborhood (Jerry). If there was anything good about him I never saw it. He was an evil kid. When he was in his early twenties he raped a 2 year old. I think if the dominant outward characteristics of a person are bad it is hard to see past them to find the good.

Answer 7

No. The idea of 'good' is cultural and imaginary like it's counterpart 'bad'.

Neither symbol truly exist anywhere but in thought. Each unique expression of nature is part of the one whole which is beyond and outside of those human ideas.

Answer 8

I believe that there's the potential of there being something good in every person. Inherently..... no!

Answer 9

Of course there is. Just for different things, different situations. Some people don't know how to show their good. But everyone has good in them. But, everyone also has evil. Hopefully, the good will overcome the evil!

Answer 10

good is how you think of it. people's view on what good is, is the basis of your answer. yes you may be born blanc and pure but that doesn't mean they are 'good', babies do things they shouldn't do but we don't consider it as an evil deed, it's just lack of understanding that makes them do things they shouldn't. power means greed which leads to evil deeds, education and understanding leeds to feeling and emotion, you learn to synthasise with others and thats what makes you good. eating meat could be considered bad and evil but it's different views on different matters that make you feel something to be bad or good.

Answer 11

yes,ABSOLUTELY.
noone is TOTALLY pure innocent,or pure evil.
we're humans,a mixture of this and that,but sometimes on side is the upper most one.
and also there' ALWAYS something good AT LEAST.

yes,i DO BELIEVE.