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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
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.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.