The average person is actually good, but introduce severe trauma as well as game theory - prisoner’s dilemma and bystander effect - and people (plural) are suddenly a huge problem.
Do you mean to say good until a time to show said goodness comes?
What do you base that the average person is good?
I would say the average person would kill another person for 100k monies (in case of no other consequences & ease, like press of a button).
I’m not seeing much else unfortunately, just goodwashing stories of philanthropy & such.
Eg Romans didn’t have issues pillaging & then subjugating entire provinces to the empire, kill any opposition to the pillaging or trade. Except for scales, such this aspect of “goodness” before and after.
Do ppl really look at all the constant killing for power & think this has nothing to do with humanity, just a few bad apples?
I wonder how much of that is a result of what society imposes on the individual.
Some might come along and say capitalism forces this on us.
While others might then argue these similar influences and pressures existed before written language, and even in nature in protohumans, primates and other animals.
Idk, environment def has an affect - but then again “being good” should prob go for when it’s easy & for when it’s hard to do so. Otherwise it’s the environment who decides, not the individual. And what has been the environment of humanity but the few who ruled it throughout the ages?
The average person is actually good, but introduce severe trauma as well as game theory - prisoner’s dilemma and bystander effect - and people (plural) are suddenly a huge problem.
Do you mean to say good until a time to show said goodness comes?
What do you base that the average person is good?
I would say the average person would kill another person for 100k monies (in case of no other consequences & ease, like press of a button).
I’m not seeing much else unfortunately, just goodwashing stories of philanthropy & such.
Eg Romans didn’t have issues pillaging & then subjugating entire provinces to the empire, kill any opposition to the pillaging or trade. Except for scales, such this aspect of “goodness” before and after.
Do ppl really look at all the constant killing for power & think this has nothing to do with humanity, just a few bad apples?
I wonder how much of that is a result of what society imposes on the individual.
Some might come along and say capitalism forces this on us.
While others might then argue these similar influences and pressures existed before written language, and even in nature in protohumans, primates and other animals.
Idk, environment def has an affect - but then again “being good” should prob go for when it’s easy & for when it’s hard to do so. Otherwise it’s the environment who decides, not the individual. And what has been the environment of humanity but the few who ruled it throughout the ages?