We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
The world is a more mysterious place than we admit sometimes - there is more to the world than just human evil.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
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