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  by Anthony Megna

  Created on: May 12, 2008   Last Updated: November 25, 2011

  Let's go all the way back to the beginning...

  When a newborn baby leaves the birth canal a whole new

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  by Scott Birch

  Created on: March 19, 2009

  The inherency of good or evil in humans is a trick question. One must assume, since there is no moral

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  by Barbara Griffin

  Created on: April 26, 2009

  Yes, people are inherently good. In the beginning God made man and woman with the spirit of his peace

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  by Sean Curtis

  Created on: February 27, 2008

  Certain survival instincts are likely hard-wired into our brains. We are, after all, animals. This can

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  by Judy Joyce

  Created on: October 12, 2008

  PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY GOOD: One Thing upon which Secularist and Religionist Can Agree But Sometimes

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  by Stephen Atkinson

  Created on: April 03, 2008

  To believe that goodness is not in the heart of man, is to believe not in the very heart of man. Goodness

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  by Marshall Brown

  Created on: August 02, 2008   Last Updated: November 06, 2008

  We come into this world with a longing to learn and absorb as much information as possible to build

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  by Georgia Stewart

  Created on: April 02, 2008

  People are inherently good because we all contain love and all that is good in us flows from that. Some

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  by Kimberly Foster

  Created on: February 11, 2008

  People are inherently social, which in turn requires inherently good behavior. A fundamental fact of

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  by Ginger Betzer

  Created on: January 23, 2008

  My view point is being expressed on the "good" side of this debate simply because I have faith in mankind.

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  by Dolores Moore

  Created on: February 25, 2008

  Yes, I believe so, as what newborn child does any evil deed? As a human being, it possesses the qualities

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  by pwill

  Created on: May 15, 2009   Last Updated: May 16, 2009

  A reckoning question to say the least, because people are as they think. As a man thinks, so he is

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  by Maureen Leung

  Created on: August 28, 2009   Last Updated: May 22, 2010

  According to the Bible, Adam and Eve did not have the knowledge of good and evil; they only knew the

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  by iakul

  Created on: July 31, 2008

  On the surface it would seem that according to the theory of evolution, there would only be selfish

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  by Leslie Conner

  Created on: January 20, 2009   Last Updated: January 21, 2009

  People are inherently good. Deep down. Sometimes really, really deep down. Sometimes it is so deep that

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  by Bill Whitney

  Created on: January 12, 2008

  I believe that in the majority of the cases people are basically good people. And even if they are not,

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  by Susan Hicks

  Created on: October 02, 2007

  Are People Inherently Good?

  
  
  

  I believe we are all born with an innate sense of goodness. How we end up

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  by Jay Shree

  Created on: April 05, 2011

  People are indeed inherently good. Why? The answer is simple; no babies when born are born bad into

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  by Mr Reynard

  Created on: August 18, 2007

  We are inherently neutral for sure. While we are infants, our needs are taken care of, food, water,

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  by Sadeep Man Tulachan

  Created on: August 13, 2009   Last Updated: August 16, 2009

  Yes, I think people are inherently good. However, the environment that they grew up in impact upon