Human Nature

[Angrboda]

I think we're compulsively decent in general.  Might not be for an accurate reason or even a good reason...consider the effort and risk involved (or wrongly believed to be involved) in being evil, but I do think it would be difficult to explain why we're not consistently doing our worst if bad or even amoral acts were something like behavioral gravity.   

I think we intend to be decent and even try very hard to be decent, but I am not convinced that being polite and going along with our social groups is actually good for us or others, our us-versus-them tribalism being what it is.  What we seem to be doing, instead, is going along to get along.  That's one of the reasons I have found Trump so alarming.  He has demonstrated that people, in this particular case Republicans, will sacrifice many of their most closely-held principles for the sake of conformity when they are socially dominated by a pathological liar.

You seem to dismiss and derogate the good to justify a focus on the bad. You see motivated behaviors in the good but attribute the bad purely to nature.