Are Humans Intrinsically Evil?

Evil is complete wickedness and immorality. When asking if humans are intrinsically evil, we are asking if they are hurtful by nature, and if they are born with desires only to be destructive and to cause pain. If humans are intrinsically evil, then they do good things only for personal gain, and they do evil things as a response to their nature. If humans are intrinsically good, they are born with desires to help others …showed first 75 words of 1484 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1484 total…though there is a great deal of evidence of humans doing evil things, like in the Holocaust, the September 11th attacks or murders, it is not because there is evil in human nature. Humans create evil as a result of corruption from society, or because of emotional instability. Because humans want behave well, but make mistakes as a result of being exposed to certain circumstances and environments, my argument is that humans are intrinsically good.