Are Humans Evil by Nature?

[thekitchensink]

Jay520 said:

thekitchensink said:
There is no food and evil--everyone in the world thinks they're the good guy.

I find the more interesting question to be 'are humans inherently selfish?'

I can never come to any answer other than 'yes'.

After all, do we help people to help people? No, we help people because it makes us feel good to help people.

I'd say that we feel good because we like knowing that someone is better off. Which = helping people to help people. I agree that people are selfish but I don't agree with your last line.

But what you said doesn't contradict what I said.  We don't help people simply because it helps them.  Like you said we do it because we like the feeling it gives us.  If we didn't get that good feeling from it, and if we didn't like the fact that we helped the person, then we wouldn't do it.