Is human nature inherently evil or good?
In the beginning, there was no such thing as good or evil. There was only "survival by any means necessary". All living things in nature follow this basic law. To survive in nature, there is only one logic: protect yourself and destroy others. Carnivores brutally kill docile herbivores in order to get food to survive. In order to get sunlight, the vine climbed round and round the tree, and finally strangled the tree to death. Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, as a member of the food chain, you must participate in the food chain. What? You're afraid to kill and do evil and you won't eat? Starve to death is only you, without you the earth turns. The same applies to a moral human society. In the beginning, people do not know what is good and evil, only understand that they want to survive. We analyze all the "evil" behavior of children, in fact, is to survive by hook or by crook. Is it evil for a child to cry and make a big news in a public place and force his parents to compromise just to buy snacks? It's just a matter of doing whatever it takes to get what you want. In primary school, stupid classmates are discriminated against, weak children are bullied, this is evil? It's the same way in nature that the old, the sick and the sick are expelled from their communities first to fend for themselves. According to the moral standard of human beings, human beings are evil at the beginning, but this evil is only the survival instinct brought by nature to any living creature, not the real evil. So we need education, teaching children to behave, not to throw in public places; Respect other children and don't fight. See the ants on the ground move not to die for fun...... In the process of children's growth, we slowly replace the wild in children's hearts with the moral concepts established by human civilization, and teach children to be good. It is only when children become adults and have a complete moral concept that there is good and evil. Human moral civilization does not appear out of thin air, but on the basis of strong enough development, no longer in order to survive and after the establishment of blood. Some people in order not to kill and vegetarians, because only vegetarians do not have to worry about starving to death; We care for the disadvantaged without the ability to work, because resources are abundant enough for them to share in the pie; We support gay equality because they do not produce children and do not threaten the continuation of human civilization... Whenever human society regressed and human existence was threatened, the original "evil" was clearly revealed. In times of war different races slaughtered each other, in times of famine some people even cooked their own children to eat... When life is at stake, it's not evil to do whatever it takes to survive. The Criminal law provides that when life is threatened, a person has the right to kill a person who threatens him in self-defense. In all kinds of disaster movies, people are in chaos, and those who were originally good people have become extremely selfish, just want to run away and live a little longer. If the earth is to be destroyed, aliens can only take away 100 Earth people to keep the seed, the rest have to die, then these 100 people must be the most genetically excellent, the most healthy and intelligent young men and women of all races, at that time all moral goodwill is invalid, back to the most primitive natural selection. That is to say, the fact that we are here to discuss this issue objectively is in itself an act of standing still. But the idea that human nature will do whatever it takes to survive continues to manifest itself in varying degrees even after entering civilized society. Like greed. People always want endless resources, which in modern society take the form of money. So there is official corruption, there is a rush of investors, there is burglary... Like jealousy. There is only one Monkey King, each male monkey are covetously, looking for a chance to defeat him himself as king, so men have the right to infighting, there is an uprising to declare emperor. Every female monkey wants to get the Monkey King's favor, so women have court intrigue, have secretly called each other. Of course, even in the modern world, people are extremely selfish. Factories, in order to save their own costs, discharge sewage into public rivers; Small workshops turn spoiled meat and gutter oil into food and sell it, regardless of the health of those who eat it. Bad drivers run red lights just to save a few seconds... Modern civilization defines such actions as evil, and good only occurs when the cost of doing evil is higher than the benefit. The self-interested nature of man cannot be defeated by the so-called social responsibility education alone, so we need a strict legal system. If there is no civilized moral constraints, no sanctions of laws and regulations, people's desire is endless, will eventually bring disaster and destruction. In a way, human civilization, in its unbridled development, is essentially the same as bacteria, which multiply in two. So if you have to choose one, I believe that human nature is inherently evil, but this original evil, which is necessary for living creatures to have, can not be called evil.
