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| Qwark said: Well if you watch the history chanal I guess we are. But there is progress these days. Today most humans and me included btw are inherently selfish, but most of the time that doesn't lead towards evil. It just makes people less social and there is no law preventing you from being selfish. Also not committing crimes doesn't make you a good person just a mediocre one on the moral ladder. |
It depends how you define evil. Is being complacent and willfully remain ignorant evil? Humans lack empathy on any scale larger than their direct environment. For example we all enjoy our cellphones despite children dying from slavery in coltan mines to make that tech possible. Destruction of the planet is fine as long as its not in your backyard. Poor people are just lazy bums that have it all to blame on themselves. Immigrants don't deserve to be on our patch of land.
Sure we'll help a cause here and there to feel good about ourselves, yet threaten our comfy way of life in any way and that's the end of our empathy. There are altruistic people as well, but the vast majority couldn't care less when it's beyond their immediate family. And whether true altruism actually exists is still up for debate, yet at least some humans are wired to feel rewarded from helping strangers.
Definitely most people are not inherently or actively evil, yet the majority also doesn't have the capacity to care about anyone beyond their inner circle. Are we really that upset about the people that lost their lives in a terrorist attack or are we only worried that it might happen to our loved ones? People don't seem to care about distant wars, yet the random nature of terrorism causes concern.
