I Am Fascinated By Human Behavior

I'm particularly fascinated by our capacity for cruel acts. I have a sort of morbid curiosity with trying to understand how people can stoop to bad deeds and mistreatment of others. And defining what's good or bad in the first place is its own thing to think about for fun.

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Krissea

Do you suppose we are taught compassion or is it inherent within us?

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ACasualGuy · 31-35, M

@daisthedestroyer: By saying some start bad, you're also admitting that everyone else starts off good. So I think my original thought (that evil must be taught more than good) still stands.

daisthedestroyer

i never said we start off evil. we're neutral until we're taught to be good. evil-neutral-good

anomalia27

Studies on infants have shown that even in the youngest age, humans lean to compassion. This was evidenced by a puppet show portraying good/bad characters.
The lack of of it thereof, works backwards , and may be seen as deficient. It has advantages though, this inability for empathy.

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