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RE: Do believe that people are inherently good or bad?

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Hitler possessed morals and values


By saying this you are also saying that morals are subjective.

If Morals are subjective and done by consensus, then there is no true good or bad, just what people have agreed upon.

Scary path to follow.


09-20-2008 02:50 AM
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RE: Do believe that people are inherently good or bad?

Answer (to me) : GOOD

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It depends on how you define good and bad. I think people are inherently selfish. If they can save your life without putting themselves in danger they would do..no problem.
But that's not real life. Most people who do something 'bad' in someway gain.. that's the only reason they do it..because we are all naturally selfish.

but is selfish bad... i mean it's the only reason i'm alive...it's survival

We are definitely all good to me just also...... selfish..


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RE: Do believe that people are inherently good or bad?

Unacceptance Wrote:

Steel Wrote:
Hitler possessed morals and values


By saying this you are also saying that morals are subjective.

If Morals are subjective and done by consensus, then there is no true good or bad, just what people have agreed upon.

Scary path to follow.


I was more making the point that morals and values themselves do not make someone a good person. In fact, throughout history, all kinds of atrocities have been committed by those who believed that they were doing the right thing.

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RE: Do believe that people are inherently good or bad?

Steel Wrote:

Unacceptance Wrote:

Steel Wrote:
Hitler possessed morals and values


By saying this you are also saying that morals are subjective.

If Morals are subjective and done by consensus, then there is no true good or bad, just what people have agreed upon.

Scary path to follow.


I was more making the point that morals and values themselves do not make someone a good person. In fact, throughout history, all kinds of atrocities have been committed by those who believed that they were doing the right thing.


Actually it is a scary path but probably is the one in which most of society fallow. I mean a person can have morals but that doesn't mean there good morals. Like a religious person that thinks its right to hit a child becomes they don't believe in the same thing as himself. Most of society at one time would had said that would had been an exceptable thing to do. And the man doing the beating would had been looked at as a moral person.

Hitler I believe did have morals and if he had achieved what he wonted to who is to say we all would not be living a better life now and thanking him for it?

09-20-2008 05:23 PM
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