- Pronouns
- He/Him
I see this as a common argument for authoritarianism, or general pessimism against social progress. I am skeptical of the argument myself. For one, the idea that someone is inherently evil is not something I can really accept because evil implies morality and I think you have to have a concept of what morality actually is to be evil. I don't think a baby has the inherent concept of morality to fulfill that criteria.
I guess you can argue in a different term that humans are just inherently selfish/focused on self-preservation. We do obviously have tendencies to want to avoid dying, but I think it's often understated just how reliant humans are on social interaction, and the detrimental effects of social isolation. Humans tend to work together in groups and I think our capacity for sympathy/empathy is very understated. I personally believe that selfishness is often a result of material conditions/the way society is structured as it is, which prioritizes personal profit and alienation. People argue that it society is the way it is because people are the way they are but I think humans are much more malleable and influenced by outside factors than we tend to realize. In any case that's just a random ramble on my part, God my writing skills have lapsed pretty significantly.
I guess you can argue in a different term that humans are just inherently selfish/focused on self-preservation. We do obviously have tendencies to want to avoid dying, but I think it's often understated just how reliant humans are on social interaction, and the detrimental effects of social isolation. Humans tend to work together in groups and I think our capacity for sympathy/empathy is very understated. I personally believe that selfishness is often a result of material conditions/the way society is structured as it is, which prioritizes personal profit and alienation. People argue that it society is the way it is because people are the way they are but I think humans are much more malleable and influenced by outside factors than we tend to realize. In any case that's just a random ramble on my part, God my writing skills have lapsed pretty significantly.