Is humankind inherently good or evil? by Rani Nair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh Rani Nair en-us 2021-01-29 23:52:05 UTC 2021-01-30 20:13:00 UTC hello@padlet.com People have a natural tendency to be kind 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144082868 When I first moved here, many people went out of their way to be my friend and make me feel welcomed.]]> 2021-01-30 19:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144082868 Humankind is inherently good but can be corrupt through evil 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144085147 “People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence , however, is corrupted by the evils of society.”- Jean Jacques Rousseau]]> 2021-01-30 19:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144085147 If you water an apple tree with hate it will grow poisonous apples 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144086019 I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end….
And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;.....
.And it grew both day
and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine….-A Poison tree by William Blake
]]> 2021-01-30 19:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144086019 Human nature is evil 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144086747 “Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.” (It's what you do with your power that makes you either good or bad.)-Xun Ji]]> 2021-01-30 20:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144086747 Human nature is evil unless taught not to be...Its all about the way you nurture a child 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144087656 “Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.” (Hate is taught)-Marek Edelman]]> 2021-01-30 20:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144087656 Being inherently good or evil has everything to do with how you were raised and intentions 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144089544 “tightly bound into the nature of our developing minds is the ability to make sense of the world in terms of motivations, and a basic instinct to prefer friendly intentions over malicious ones. It is on this foundation that adult morality is built.”- yale experiment]]> 2021-01-30 20:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144089544 You can be good with moments of evil 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144090400 “we start from a place of moral purity. But under certain circumstances, we are all capable of doing things to others that are painful and vicious. Some of these acts go beyond our capacity to immediately understand them, and we might label “evil” what is really illness, fear, desperation, hate”]]> 2021-01-30 20:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144090400 Hate is taught but so is empathy 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144090974 “Hate and desperation, in particular, have seeds in abuse, hopelessness, isolation, poverty and other injustices. Hate is also taught. But nonviolence and empathy can also be taught and put into action to eliminate these causes.”]]> 2021-01-30 20:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144090974 Evil can come in many forms such as racism. No one is born racist, it is taught. 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144091539 “ No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his religion, or his background. People must learn to hate , and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite.”- Nelson Mandela]]> 2021-01-30 20:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144091539 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144098821 2021-01-30 20:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144098821 Our intuition tell us to choose cooperation vs. selfishness 23rnair https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144099916 “If human nature is something we must be born with, then we may be neither good nor bad, cooperative nor selfish. But if human nature is simply the way we tend to act based on our intuitive and automatic impulses, then it seems that we are an overwhelmingly cooperative species, willing to give for the good of the group even when it comes at our own personal expense.”-experiment study]]> 2021-01-30 20:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/23rnair/bg160msb19bf4sfh/wish/1144099916