(January 25, 2018 at 12:43 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Wally, maybe it's the other way around? Instead of the default being that we are all bad except for if we have stuff, the default is actually to be good unless we were raised in extreme circumstances to be bad. Maybe these people who were born and raised in a broken society act that way because that's how they were treated and that's what they know, but the default would really have been to act like decent people?
I still stand by what I said that sometimes people really are just bad, no explanation. But I think when it comes to the overwhelming crimes against humanity in the broken parts of the world, most cases really are a matter of them just having been brought up that way.
I don't know... just kinda throwing my thoughts out there. You raise some interesting points.
I guess it depends on what you view as the 'normal' state. What we have now has existed in this form for 20 years? That may be a bit generous. Does that mean the other 199,980 years of human society falls under the 'broken' label?
