The question of whether people are naturally good or evil has confused the individuals who attempt to answer it thus attracting researchers to study the subject. Different scholars provide different views for their conclusion of individuals being either good or bad and have explained why people are fundamentally moral and others evil by use of examples to support their arguments.
People respond to the problems encountered by fellow individuals in the society, whether the necessity is to assist, enhance well-being, or relieve suffering. Men and women serve other’s welfare by acts such as providing money for lend to people in unstable countries to start businesses, establishing the innocence of individuals in jail for crimes that they did not engage, or by working for the development of social change (Kemerling, 2013). Most of these volunteers do not sacrifice their welfare, but they desire to contribute to other’s prosperity the guides their hearts of giving. Assisting the poor in the society provides them with satisfaction and fulfilment thus showing the characteristics of good people.
Stable and developed countries assist the troubled and deprived nations. Citizens take the responsibility and decision together as a nation to contribute to the well-being of their fellow nations. Activities involved include providing food to the famine affected states, advocating against the persecution of less influential individuals at home or in other countries, offering refuge to people who are fleeing from instability resulting from politics in their states and intervening to end violence (Firouzjaee " Pourkalhor, 2014). Such acts of kindness, ranging from requiring little efforts and sacrifice, symbolise the goodness that people have. If it could have been the opposite, the disadvantaged nations would have been left to continue suffering and loss their lives which could have symbolised the act of inhuman by the citizens of developed states.
Different people in the world engage in actions which shows the value of goods that they possess. Examples of such activities include a mother caring for her child, and the youths caring for their grandparents or sick in their families. A young Canadian boy, Craig Kielberger, heard about child labour and with the assistance from the elder brother and parents, he created an international organisation of teenagers which would protect them from the kinds of abuses they face in their lives (Schermer, 2015). Another child encountered homeless people living on the streets and formed an organising movement that would provide blankets to those people. A Hutu man in Rwanda protects a Tutsi woman from killers, who aimed to kill her after murdering her husband, asking for no payments. The acts performed by these individuals shows how good people are to each other regardless of their differences.
Individuals and groups harm others in different situations and regions. Evidence of people being inherently evil is derived from the images that projected on televisions, reports in newspapers and the stories that people narrate describing violent acts by offenders such as sexual and physical abuse of children, teenage fierceness which include shooting and murder, or adult rape. Terrorist attacks on civilians, persecution and torture of groups of people, mass killing and massacre are also examples that show how inherently evil people are to the innocents. People’s experience violence in their lives which are hurtful and painful, for example, children call their peers names, spread rumours about them or fight against each other, and in some cases, the adults react aggressively to them, showing the evil behaviour they possess (Mackelprang, 2016).
People can ask questions that can develop to understanding individuals as inherently evil. Such issues include: why do parents have to dedicate efforts when raising children to become competent adults? Why do countries or states require laws and consequences to control human behaviour? Why has humanity maintained evil for centuries? And why are people not able to naturally express gratitude, and instead must be learned (Staub, 2013)? The questions developed result in conclusions that parents devote determination in raising children because children are born evil thus necessary to change their characters. Individuals have to learn how to appreciate or be grateful to people because it is not part of them. A constitution is required in a country to regulate people’s behaviour which could be evil in its absence. Criminal actions have been perpetrated by individuals for years because they are inherently evil and cannot live without immoral acts occurring.
Scholars perceive people as both inherently good and evil. The judgement is based on the points of arguments which differentiate individuals as moral or sinful. Naturally good people enhance peace and development of every person’s welfare in the society while the evil and the offenders cause violence which destroys the properties and loss of lives, and also lack of peace is experienced resulting from the instability.
References
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