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« on: May 12, 2024, 03:34:57 PM »

I'd say humans are generally good natured and happiest when we can be altruistic and just, but we're really stupid and easily driven to bad things by fear, trauma, pain, etc.

ETA: also really good at rationalizing and not thinking about things when the implications of a scary truth are really bad for our lives and happiness.
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2024, 04:00:54 PM »

That sounds about right. Some, I assume, are simply bad people, though that's not often the case.
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2024, 06:05:38 PM »

Most people are good people and a small minority are bad.
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2024, 07:13:20 PM »

Good, but mainly self interested.
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2024, 08:25:07 PM »

There isn't one, at least not at any kind of fundamental level. Morality is socially conditioned like most other things.
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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2024, 07:18:04 AM »

We’re all bad.
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« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2024, 10:03:06 AM »

It must necessarily be neutral, since it's the standard by which we judge the moral character of any given person.
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« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2024, 10:17:02 AM »

A smallish minority are fundamentally good, an even smaller minority are fundamentally bad. But the sizeable majority are somewhere in between.
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2024, 08:52:05 PM »

Hobbes got it right.
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