this is a honest question i ask myself. are we born naturally good or bad? we have all seen examples of men and women who have been raised in less than good enviroments, yet they turn out to be one of the most incredible, loving people we have ever met. put another person in the SAME enviroment, and they become the monsters we all hear about on t.v. why?
i honestly dont know. but i do have a few thoughts. 1) maybe it is in our genes. we all know the saying, "people born from alchoholics are likely to become alchoholics themselves. maybe the same goes for behavior? but then it wouldnt make sense because of those people who go against the norms.
2) maybe we are born to be good or bad. maybe there are some who are naturally good hearted and will ALWAYS help, and maybe some are born bad, meant for nothing more than causing grief and the destruction of things that are important to the rest of us. now while this is certaintly plausible, i find it way to hard to think that people are BORN to be good or bad. dont we all have a choice in who we are and who we become? that leads me to my third idea:
3) we all choose who to be. as bad as that sounds, to think that that man who just came after your purse or child WANTED to do that to you, think about it like this: we all have the potential to be good or "evil". keep in mind however, that "evil" is based in the eyes of the people who say that word. that man who stole your wallet could have had noble purposes to steal your money, such as to pay for the food that will go into his childs stomach. or maybe it was maliscious, to pay for the drugs he would be shooting into his body later that day.
ultimately i think it is up to us, all of us, to decide who we are to become, and to hope that those who witness our actions take into consideration why we do what WE do.
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