Humanity. Is it naturally kind? or is it naturally cruel?
Humanity is kind
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Humanity is Cruel
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If it was naturally cruel, it would've been extinct a long, long time ago. If you put ten cruel people in an island and wait, they will self destruct. Humans are naturally competitive and survivalists. Both traits that made us prevail the ages and the eras, but also traits that sometimes, in modern culture, are expressed in what many perceive as forms of cruelty. But there are ways in which you can observe the natural tendency to be kind to each other. Kids tend to be troublesome, but mostly due to what they learn with their friends, or due to rebellion towards authoritative parenting. Unkind people are not the majority, they're just more noticeable since they're usually damaging, loud, etc. Kind people tend to gang up on the unkind and prevail, as happened in the two world wars we know, and in many lesser conflicts in history. Side: Humanity is kind
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Depends on the influence, humanity is easily made cruel. It's a standard of cultural norm and their acceptable standards of behavior within the culture. We have evil societies that exist, societies on the tight rope that could go either way, and you have societies that are fair, and have higher standards of right and wrong. Its interesting what influenced them and the behavior in general of a society resulting from that influence. Side: Humanity is Cruel
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Quite honestly it's not just humanity. There is really no cruelty or kindness gene/genes in the human genome. It's the classic wild instinct, do whatever you can to survive. We, humans, made a creation called kindness/cruelty to separate ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom so we can feel special. Side: Humanity is Cruel
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