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Question: Which statement comes closest to your view
#1
Human nature is essentially good; evil comes about primarily as a result of misunderstandings or attempts to comply with outdated rules or norms.		  
#2
Human nature is for the most part good, but a small minority of individuals prefer evil over good, and need to be punished if they act out.		  
#3
Human nature is neither good nor evil; we all choose for ourselves what kind of person to be.		  
#4
Human nature is essentially evil, so we must limit the power of government lest any one individual becomes too powerful.		  
#5
Human nature is essentially evil, so we must give government as much power as possible to decide what is best and punish wrongdoers.		  
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Antonio the Sixth
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« on: June 22, 2017, 11:25:54 AM »
Option 3 (normal).

Defining human nature as fundamentally good or evil means depriving these concepts of any meaning.
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Antonio the Sixth
Antonio V
Atlas Institution
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Posts: 58,314
United States


Political Matrix
E: -7.87, S: -3.83

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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2017, 01:44:15 PM »
This free speech vs determinism argument always struck me as silly. Sure, when you get down to it, everything is determined on a basic level. All particles interact according to predictable rules (well, not quite when you get to quantum physics, but it's hard to see quantum physics as the basis for free will). Still, for all intents and purposes, on the level of perception at which everyday human beings interact, we seem to be able to make conscious choices that can't be deterministically traced to a proximate cause. If we took determinism seriously, individuals would act and society would be organized in a way that would strike everybody as nonsensical and immoral. So obviously free will must exist.
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