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consider the following: Are human beings essentially good or bad, or a combination of both? Argue for, bring evidence to, and support the position that you have taken. How will your position affect your stance on morality?

In two paragraphs or more, answer the questions above in a scholarly manner using the textbook and/or outside resources. If using outside sources, it is important that your sources are credible. Acceptable sources come from the following: the library, .org, .mil, .gov, .edu. Wikipedia, or any other “open” sources, are not to be used within collegiate writing. Within your posting, include any in-paragraph citations, and reference the text at the end.

Answer 1

Human humans are animals that are extremely social. This is why we are very interested in what other people are doing and why. Therefore, we need to understand who is good and bad and who we want to prevent and who we can tolerate. When we all see virtue and vice, virtues are usually actions that benefit others and vices that involve selfish acts

Because seriously evil people can have a soft side, for fear of appearing to rationalize or excuse their offences, we hesitate to empathize with their kindness. However, such people are reminding us of a curious reality about our species. We're not just the smartest creatures. We have a rare and perplexing mix of moral tendencies as well. We can be the nastiest and the most beautiful of species.

Heart surgery, space travel, and comic opera all rely on progress that our distant ancestors would have been amazed by. However, from an evolutionary point of perspective, they also rely on capabilities for a quite outstanding capacity to work together, including tolerance, trust, and comprehension. These are some of the characteristics that make our species extremely "good" to be considered.

The mixture of good and evil in human beings is not a modern product. To judge from latest hunter-gatherers ' behavior and archeological records, individuals have shared food for hundreds of thousands of years, split their labour, and assisted the poor. Our ancestors of Pleistocene were completely tolerant and peaceful in many respects. However, the same sources of proof also show that our forebears practiced raids, sexual dominance, torture and executions with variants of cruelty as abominable as any Nazi exercise.

On the one side, there is restricted human variation. We really have distinctive societal forms. People live nowhere in soldiers like baboons, or in isolated harems like gorillas, or in completely promiscuous societies like chimpanzees or bonobos. Human societies consist of families within groups that are component of bigger communities, an arrangement that is typical of our species and distinguishable from other species.

Yet, on the other side, human beings and primates do act equally in many ways.