Are People Inherently Evil

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Throughout the years of human advancement people have suffered and lives have been stolen in the pursuit of personal gain. Although it does make me question if it is always for someone’s personal gain or if there are other factors that are involved. The human mind and soul has been shown to be inherently evil one generation after another. I n this paper I will discuss why I think people are inherently evil through some genetics, how someone was raised, and the selfish things that people do in hopes of bettering themselves. I will always stand by the idiom “the apple does not fall far from the tree” and explain how we, humans don’t change throughout our offspring, and thus we can be eternally evil. I strongly believe that genetics plays a huge role in humans being inherently evil because I somewhat experienced it firsthand. My father and I are much alike and the most common trait that we share is aggression. When people are angry or show actions of aggressions, they are also more likely to commit violent crimes. Another example of this would be people who have …show more content…

Over time society has slowly gotten worse and worse. If we look back to the 1800’s there was not nearly as much crime as there is today and it seemed that people had more respect for each other. Now a days it seems that nobody cares about others wellbeing, and will do almost anything to make sure that they have everything they want and need. Even if it means hurting others. I am constantly seeing news reports pop up on my social media cites of just another crime that has been committed. It goes from people being robbed all the way to people being physical injured and even killed. After seeing countless stories on the news I began to question why people do these things. People now are so willing to hurt someone else and take from others just for personal