Do you think some people are born good and others are born evil?
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I do not. I think most people are born neutral, and develop such traits through experience. Some might have chemical imbalances that push them in one direction or another, but that’s something else entirely.
I’m not exactly sure about how I define good or evil. For the sake of labeling people…Well I don’t like that idea.
I’d go by the challenge of Generativity, from Erickson’s stages of development. At this challenge, people either become ‘generative’ and are motivated to contribute to society and the human race in a positive way, or ‘self-absorbed’ and care only about their own survival and well-being.
But that’s incomplete. A person can care about themselves before everything else and still be a good person, and a person can want to contribute to society in a harmful way. Plus it would be a bit unfair to say that someone who cares about themselves is evil.
I like the D&D definitions actually.
Sorry, didn’t mean to go off on a tangent. That idea has frequented my mind for a while now, and it was close enough.
Thanks too. I never get any good asks.