Is Mankind good or bad?

Every day, people kill other people or simply let them die without doing anything for them. We destroy our environment for profit. Some don't care about the future and would gladly sacrifice all the next generations just to live better. Our minds are full of hatred, selfishness and corruption.

Yet, there is also much to be loved in Mankind. Some people willingly die to save other people's lives. Some would give everything they have to permit the poor to have something to eat or some place to take shelter in. Some spend a large part of their time helping people in need. We always feel better when we are generous and make others happy.

So, can we have faith in Mankind? Can we hope that one day all wars will end? Can we hope that one day all humans will share everything and never let one of them starve? Or are we all selfish and corrupt animals who should never have been created in the first place?

Or maybe it's something in-between.

When humans of all different kinds are isolated and go along with nature everything is fine but once a civilization go against nature then their civilization goes to hell. One thing I noticed is that all of the extremist elements of mankind always make it to the top…a few recent example would be Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. Those four men pretty much decided the history of the contemporary world.

As far as all wars ending, that doesn't appear to be possible unless humans really learn from the past mistakes and not allow their leaders to push them into endless and pointless wars.

I dunno, my growing apathy makes it hard for me to be a good judge of this. I think people might be well intentioned, but are fundmentally stupid, or unwilling to learn.

Seeing how "good" and "bad" are very realitive, I suppose everyone by nature has to have both, for the definition of the words to even work.

actually there's an interesting discussion about it here: Good or Bad?

I could amend my thoughts on this slightly but what I said there is close enough to stand.

I was thinking about that topic, but I think these could be two seperate things, one with a more relgious aim, one without.

I voted for b, although I believe in a human species, not a human "race."

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Everyone makes their own choices, and there ends up being a balance of good and evil. Humans are quite capable for doing horrible things to each other, and being born into the nature of sin doesn’t help. We’re also capable of doing a great deal of good, which means we aren’t all going to fit into the same category every time. We all try to hope for the best, but there are some disgraceful examples of human beings out there.

I completely agree with Zairik. The Human race has the ability or potential to become a very good people, or very bad, it's all based on our choices and how we react and interact with eachother. I don't think you can say we're either good or bad until you've got every single person on the planet either good or bad, and it only takes one last person to cause others to change their attitudes or opinions. The power of one voice can be stronger than we think, and we are ever changing. An example is the German people. I love the german people, in fact, I think they're so great I went through 3 tedious years of classes to learn the language haha, but if I were alive 50 years ago, might I have said the same thing? I regard the German people right now kind and hard working. But 60 years ago, all it took was one voice to turn a country into a hateful and hated people. Then again, do you count the german peoples goodness towards eachother, and those good hearted germans that every once in a while spared American and British airmen? I could go on forever, but the bottom line I think is that you can never say we're all good or we're all bad.

I am religious though, and I believe in a Second Coming of Christ, and I believe after that Second Coming, all will be good. Ask this same question then, it'll be a lot easier to answer for me lol.

I'd say D., but not as much as it says... it's not that widely corrupt, and there are more than a few nice people out there.
I was looking for something more in-the-middle, without being about "good and evil" - but what I picked was closest to my opinion.
I think mankind can be "evil", with something it is used to (mankind, for instance), but with new things, we can be quite nice.