Are people fundamentally evil?
Posted 12-16-2015 at 02:14 AM by Continuum
In the animal kingdom there are a wide range of violence within a range of beasts.
These violent acts are driven by instincts.
Predators have no hesitations in early its prey while it is still alive by tearing parts or it till the prey die.
There are killing of one prey to the mass killing of a whole group, e.g. the mass killing of honey bees by the Japanese giant hornets.
DNA wise all humans are inherently potential beasts because via evolution we have inherited 98% of the genes of the nearest beast. On detailed analysis the human brain has features of all the beast that have existed in time. The only difference is a more complex cortical part of the brain, the neo-cortex.
Thus all humans has the potential to be beastly and capable of doing all the violent acts that are instinctly done by beasts.
Thus all humans are potentially beasts with the same killer instincts the beast has at present. Note these killer and violent instinct are very necessary for human to kill for food and self-defense. The difference is those killer and violent instincts in human are inhibited and modulated by specific inhibitors from the higher cortical brain to kill only if necessary. This is the faculty of Impulse Controls.
The fact is these inhibitor neurons are very thin, weak and flimsy because they have evolved merely within the last few hundred thousand years compare to the inherent instincts which had evolved over 6 million years within the animal world.
Therefore the stronger instinctual impulses will break through if the inhibitors are weaken due to stress and other psychological and physiological triggers. Examples are violence during a sudden crime of passion.
Those who have weak physiological inhibitors and the psychopaths who do not has strong inhibitors to control their killer and violent instincts.
While we would normally accept whatever 'violent' acts by animals as natural, humans committing such acts as driven by the same instincts as beasts are termed evil. This is because humans has an additional faculty, i.e. morality which is absent in beasts. Our moral faculty differentiate between what is good and what is evil.
'Evil' is a very loose term so we need to define it.
I define 'evil' as any act or intention that is net-negative against the well being of the individual or groups and therefrom humanity.
'Evil' in this case is rated in degrees from 1[low] to 100[high].
Usually those acts rated from 1 to 50 are term 'negative' or 'bad'. However as a matter of convenience and consistency we shall call them 1/100 to 50/100 evil.
Since such a range of evil [as defined] manifest only from the DNA, brain and mind [nurture] of a generic human being, people are fundamentally evil.
[quote=Continuum;42299414]see this post
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These violent acts are driven by instincts.
Predators have no hesitations in early its prey while it is still alive by tearing parts or it till the prey die.
There are killing of one prey to the mass killing of a whole group, e.g. the mass killing of honey bees by the Japanese giant hornets.
DNA wise all humans are inherently potential beasts because via evolution we have inherited 98% of the genes of the nearest beast. On detailed analysis the human brain has features of all the beast that have existed in time. The only difference is a more complex cortical part of the brain, the neo-cortex.
Thus all humans has the potential to be beastly and capable of doing all the violent acts that are instinctly done by beasts.
Thus all humans are potentially beasts with the same killer instincts the beast has at present. Note these killer and violent instinct are very necessary for human to kill for food and self-defense. The difference is those killer and violent instincts in human are inhibited and modulated by specific inhibitors from the higher cortical brain to kill only if necessary. This is the faculty of Impulse Controls.
The fact is these inhibitor neurons are very thin, weak and flimsy because they have evolved merely within the last few hundred thousand years compare to the inherent instincts which had evolved over 6 million years within the animal world.
Therefore the stronger instinctual impulses will break through if the inhibitors are weaken due to stress and other psychological and physiological triggers. Examples are violence during a sudden crime of passion.
Those who have weak physiological inhibitors and the psychopaths who do not has strong inhibitors to control their killer and violent instincts.
While we would normally accept whatever 'violent' acts by animals as natural, humans committing such acts as driven by the same instincts as beasts are termed evil. This is because humans has an additional faculty, i.e. morality which is absent in beasts. Our moral faculty differentiate between what is good and what is evil.
'Evil' is a very loose term so we need to define it.
I define 'evil' as any act or intention that is net-negative against the well being of the individual or groups and therefrom humanity.
'Evil' in this case is rated in degrees from 1[low] to 100[high].
Usually those acts rated from 1 to 50 are term 'negative' or 'bad'. However as a matter of convenience and consistency we shall call them 1/100 to 50/100 evil.
Since such a range of evil [as defined] manifest only from the DNA, brain and mind [nurture] of a generic human being, people are fundamentally evil.
[quote=Continuum;42299414]see this post
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The Japanese Giant Hornets would be my worst phobiaPosted 12-16-2015 at 02:44 AM by ANDROID 26
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Dear "Continuum:
In my opinion, one difference between animal instincts and human "instincts" is that man has the "power of duplicity"and animals do not possess this skill or ability.
Humans possess two simultaneous realities at any given moment in time: Humans are like "creatures" with two faces.
Humans thusly can hide evil intent behind a false face of love.... this is one reason why humans implicitly distrust one another.Posted 12-16-2015 at 05:13 AM by joeJD70
