2012-04-21, 12:12 PM
[COLOR="#cc8899"]Evil? No. Selfish? Yes, with the main exception being one's children/immediate family.
We're animals. We're hardwired by nature to attempt to survive and to further our own interests. Some people do take this too far, but to truly qualify as evil a person would have to be doing something for the sake of malice or spite. If we were hardwired as a species to be inherently evil, we'd have destroyed ourselves long ago. Fortunately for us as a species, we tend to value community enough that our selfishness hasn't caused us to fall apart.
Also, I hated that book. Had to read it in high school, didn't much care for it.[/COLOR]
We're animals. We're hardwired by nature to attempt to survive and to further our own interests. Some people do take this too far, but to truly qualify as evil a person would have to be doing something for the sake of malice or spite. If we were hardwired as a species to be inherently evil, we'd have destroyed ourselves long ago. Fortunately for us as a species, we tend to value community enough that our selfishness hasn't caused us to fall apart.
Also, I hated that book. Had to read it in high school, didn't much care for it.[/COLOR]