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Good at heart?
Are people basically good?
Mencius said anyone who saw a child about to fall into a well would feel a jolt of alarm. Xunzi answered that people are born selfish and only learn to be good. Answer from what you've seen people do when nobody was making them.
Your answer
Nearby questions
- Punishment without a payoffDoes anyone deserve to suffer?
- Born on the other sideWhat gives you a stronger claim to a safe, prosperous country than someone born just across its border?
- An unjust law is still a lawIs it ever right to break the law?
- Write the rules, then be bornYou must design society before finding out whether you will be rich or poor, healthy or ill, powerful or ignored. Which rules would you refuse to leave to luck?
- Freedom for the speech you hateShould any speech be banned?
