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Good and evil are perceptions based on personal views. What is good to a pro-choice activist is evil to a pro-life activist, and vice versa. People are influenced by their surroundings; family, friends, school, books, etc. You have to go through your own experiences to choose what you want to believe. If you were a war veteran and saw people getting killed and horrible things, then you would probably go through life as an anti-war activist, like Kurt Vonnegut. If you never have held a gun in your life and never fought in a war, but heard stories about how war is full of glory and excitement, you'd probably love the idea of it.

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Is the concept of good and evil subjective?

The concept of good and evil can be subjective, as different people and cultures may have varying beliefs about what is considered good or evil based on their values, beliefs, and experiences.


Did john Locke believe people were good or evil?

John Locke believed that people were born as a blank slate, or tabula rasa, and that their character was shaped by their experiences and environment. He did not believe that people were inherently good or evil, but rather that they had the capacity to act in ways that aligned with reason and natural law.


Can a person be born good or evil or does a person learn to be good or evil?

It's a complex interplay of both nature and nurture. While genetics can influence certain traits, morality is largely shaped by upbringing, environment, and personal experiences. People are not inherently good or evil at birth, but rather learn and develop these traits over time.


Is a man born good or evil?

Man is born innately good in his weakness but with time develops a evil hate in that weakness with the strength of others between emotional and rationality.With rationality and virtues in good upbringings people learn to think themselves as part of a greater whole and acting for oneself without consideration of others is wrong or evil. In bad upbringings people come to see themselves as individuals and will seek to better themselves no matter the cost to other people. These people are also more likely to take pleasure in harming other living beings. this evil is a temporary madness and those with a lack of guilt will seek to do so again and feel no remorse. The capability for evil is within as one can work as individual beings which was needed for survival tens of thousands of years ago. The capability for good comes from ones instincts as social or group animals which come from antiquity and far back from our ancestors.


Why are people evil?

Not all people are evil. However, a good bit of people are misunderstood and/or mistreated, and a lot of times that results in one becoming "evil". There are also a lot of selfish people that don't care about anyone except themselves, therefore being evil by not considering anyone else and hurting many others. But not all people are evil. It may seem sometimes by watching the news and reading news articles and with all the shootings and other awful things that happen one may assume that the world is evil as are the people living in the world. However that is not true. While there are many evil people there are many good people too.

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Can evil people act good and can good people act evil?

yes i know one


Are people born bad?

NO. PEOPLE CAN CHOOSE TO BE EVIL OR CREATE EVIL. NO ONE IS BORN WITH ANY TYPE OF RAGE!


When was Good People in Times of Evil created?

Good People in Times of Evil was created on 2000-11-10.


Do people of Islamic faith believe that they are born inherently good or evil?

Well it's depend on the person thinking God made every one equal. Men's, and, Women's are equal. If the person think bad than he/she is evil and if the person thinks good then he/she is not evil. For example: The people who kill other innocent people without any reason just for enjoyment are evil and people who always think good about others not just for there own self are good!


What are some resons people are born evil?

People are not born evil. They learn it. All behavior is learned and those who "seem" evil are people who may have been abused, not loved, and haven't bonded with a parent. Some children are born into a violent home and that is all they know. This can result in physcial and mental disabilities which could result in behaviors that are not considered good.


Was the red army good in the Holocaust?

Good and evil cannot be attributed to organisations. Only people can be good or evil.


Are any of the characters purely good or purely evil?

Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Everyone has both qualities mixed within them, so that good people sometimes do bad things, and evil people sometimes have good moments.


What do they believe is the cause of evil?

Judaism teaches that all people are born good but HaShem gave us the freewill and the ability to choose to do both good and bad. When a person chooses to do evil, that is their choice and their choice only. There is no single cause or source of evil according to Judaism and nothing can make us do evil.


Why good people suffer and evil people prosper?

Because good people have limits to what they can do(as in to not hurt others) while evil people have no restraints on what they can and cannot do, allowing them much more freedom to get what they want, and thus hurt others (as in good people).


Is the concept of good and evil subjective?

The concept of good and evil can be subjective, as different people and cultures may have varying beliefs about what is considered good or evil based on their values, beliefs, and experiences.


Are babies evil?

No, babies are evil in any way. Babies are born perfect and the only evil in people is what they learn from others.


Who believed people were born evil?

Thomas Hobbes