My latest essay: "Are Human Beings Basically Evil?"

[hatzel]

The definition of 'evil' I'm going by=willingness to harm/cause pain/destroy others in the pursuit of what's perceived to be in the agent's interests.

Some may not agree with that (it being pretty close to Nietzsche's 'good' of the Herrenmoral), so it would be best to make sure people are aware of what you mean. But that's a whole other essay in itself, 'what is evil?', so it might be best to find somebody who's already defined 'evil' in a way you agree with, and just name-drop. That's a good space-saver

[neosyndic]

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[Unclebananahead]

humans are basically human. concepts of ''good'' and ''evil'' are relative to time and place. but i can understand that from the perspective of socialism, it is best to give humans the benefi of the doubt and assume they are ''basically good''. after all, socialism stands for creating the conditions that maximise freedom for all, and freedom (not liberty) is a condition for human happiness.

That's more or less the point of my piece. I'm interested in your conception of 'freedom' vs. 'liberty' however. Does 'liberty' contain bourgeois property rights as a core element in your notion of that concept?