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Humans are born evil.
...bad actors win, and only winners are at liberty to build the future...
...you are here, today, as the living legacy of shameless exploitation, and the future belongs to the progeny of those shameless exploiters among us...
Evil doesn't exist
It's a Thought Stopper people use to excuse shunning and even killing those they don't like, instead of understanding and correcting.
You're right in a way. People are born narcissists. Our brains aren't fully formed. It takes years of training an neural development for them to change.
But that's a ton of work. It's easier to label someone Evil an be done with them.
Humans are the true orcs. Our biology is border line insane when compared with the rest of the animals on this planet. Perhaps if we were aware that we are the orcs we might be able to move on to higher goals.
Please elaborate. I'm more of the view that most humans are born as a blank slate and their upbringing shapes who they are as people.
Kids don't understand the idea of "others" until a certain age. They don't understand that others are also individuals with their own lives, feelings, pain, etc. They will hurt each other and even kill each other (siblings drowning other siblings, pushing them down the stairs, etc.) if left unsupervised. They have to be guided for a long time before they aren't dangers to themselves and others.
And it doesn't stop there. Every class in a public school, everywhere has at least one bully and hanger-ons. And the longer you're on this planet, the less people you find out you can trust.
Kids understand what they're taught. No baby is born racist, but instead, their parents teach that "the other" is dangerous/untrustworthy/"less than"/etc.
Without empathy, humans would not have formed societies. Humans being more social than neanderthals is what made humans "win", and why neanderthals no longer exist (not counting inter-species breeding, since there is no modern being that exists that is considered to be a neanderthal). Sociopathy is considered a disorder for a reason, because it is considered to be out of the norm and actively harmful.
Bullies are, very often, if not most of the time, abused at home, or otherwise have a rough home life. That would also fall under the "nurture over nature" category.
If racism weren't by nature, then it would only happen in some societies or groups, but it happens in all of them.
Empathy doesn't preclude evil.
I don't think that premise is sound. Humans evolved from a central location and then spread out from there. There have been humans from back then who have taught their children to be scared of the other.
Nowadays, we see racism/sexism/religion/etc. as tools used by the elite to divide us so that the masses don't turn against them. It isn't so hard to believe that at the dawn of civilization, similar ideas spread.
Back in the hunter gatherer days, before civilization, it isn't so difficult to believe that humans were equally scared of any stranger who they were not already familiar with, regardless of race.
That entire premise falls apart when you let a person with a different skin color enter the room of children that have never seen that skin color before. There are even videos of it where children scream in horror.
And humans didn't just evolve from one central location. They evolved in parallel on an entire continent. They then also mixed with different subspecies.
Are those children babies or older? Children are taught to fear the other at an extremely young age. I'd like to see a similar study of newborns seeing a newborn of color for the first time.
I'd say we are born chuthulu moreso than evil