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According to Hobbes, in the absence of society, humans will act in their own best interests, this equates to a world full of anarchy and a perpetual war of everyone against everyone else. People will lie, cheat, kill, etc. just to further their own selfish interests. But that's just Hobbes.

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Some religions such as Christianity have a doctrine of "original sin". This states that mankind has an intrinsic burden of evil that must be overcome. Others, like Buddhism, have concluded that mankind has an intrinsic "Buddha nature" that leads them into being good and that this nature must be encouraged to show itself.

Observation indicates that people do both good and evil things - or at least things which others interpret as good or evil. In reality people just do things. The things which we interpret as good are often more correctly described as altruistic (taking "one for the team") as these further the survival of the race of humanity rather than the individual. The human race has survived for a considerable period of time and it must be assumed that the positive benefits of this altruism (good) must outnumber the negative aspects. The human race, overall, must therefor exhibit more "good" than "evil"

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