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Do all humans have dark sides to them?


As in, its not just de-facto maniacs, psychopaths, murderers, you know, or even ignorant people, meanies, bullies, assholes and dickheads (or those inclined towards assholism and dickheadry) etc etc etc, but many just plain ordinary folks? Yes?

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There is no dark side to people, because the concept of good and bad is only a creation of man. It doesn't have any real meaning, and changes with generations. Primative cultures did horrific things in day to day life that seemed very reasonable to them then, but are considered brutally barbaric by today's standard. I'm sure future generations will feel the same about us in regards to nuclear weapon deployment. Almost anything terrible you can think of has been an acceptable part of some society at some point or another.

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https://www.quora.com/Is-the-concept-of-good-and-evil-merely-a-human-construct-or-does-good-and-evil-actually-exist-in-nature-If-it-does-exist-what-are-some-examples-of-verifiable-good-and-evil-creatures

Is the concept of good and evil merely a human construct, or does good and evil actually exist in nature? If it does exist, what are some examples of verifiable good and evil creatures?

Good and Evil are first and foremost evaluations of events, actions, people among other things. A thing is what it is. If it serves a beneficial purpose for the rational man, it’s good, it does the opposite, its evil.

A business man who takes enormous risks, develops and markets a new product that is liked and consumed by millions of customers whose life was made a little easier by that product is a Good man.

A business man, who borrows money from investors on one hand and pays out dividends to others from the same money; keeps the pyramid scheme going; thereby destroying wealth is an Evil man.

A group of people who come together and declare that man possess individual rights and is beholden to no other; and form a country on that notion are Good men.

A man who explicitly declares that the Aryan race is superior and should rule the planet and then proceeds to systematically kill people from other races is an Evil man

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It may depend on what you consider a 'dark side'

Physically harming a burglar in your home at 2 in the morning is nothing anyone wants to do but I could easily excuse that killing as perfectly reasonable

Excluding those sort of extreme cases of self defense I find most people to be fairly rational and peaceful

I don't think the majority of us are violent, backstabbing or otherwise strange weirdos

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Yes of course. Everyone has a trigger point. Some people are just better adjusted than others.

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