There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.
I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.
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