Is Human Nature Inherently Good

What if someone was to take a different approach to whether human nature is inherently good or evil? Psychologists seem to always go back and forth from human nature being good and evil. Some people like Menicous believe that human nature must start out inherently good. Others like Hzün Tsu viewed human nature as inherently evil. While these may be somewhat convincing, hopefully one can take a step back and see the role that history, society, religion, and even family plays in the shaping of our own human nature. Human nature is inherently convertible due to the inability to define the sources of our nature without looking at our environment. In order to understand the approach to this argument, one needs to know the definition of convertible.

Religion is a concept that stems from an all-powerful being or guidelines that should be followed or worshiped by people. There are many types of religions that mold different types of people or govern different types of nations. When focusing on Christianity, one can take Jesus’s sermon on the mount and put into practice what it is that he makes right and wrong. “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment.” (Zondervan). Concepts that Jesus pushes in Christianity seems to be known by little kids through the use of Sunday morning bible class and parents teaching their children. Christianity is based on the idea of free will, and with free will comes a fork in the road in many life-changing decisions. For example, a kid might instinctively know that the saying I hate you is morally wrong. Children that do this can only have this type of human nature in them after a teacher or culture points out, multiple times, how it is wrong to say I hate you to others. This idea of being able to choose whether or not you are going to do good or evil sounds like an inherently convertible mindset. Religion in other countries are sometimes forced upon an individual which then brings us back to the point that Karajeh made about “objective right and wrong” and how this forced religion was the part of society that portrayed that human’s nature is good or evil based on the religion. What if one doesn’t practice religion or even knows of religious guidelines? That’s where family comes in to be the first sources for shaping the child’s human