Are humans good or evil?

Are humans good or evil? I believe that humans are born with neither good nor bad in them. As a small child develops, it becomes either more good or evil depending on the society it is raised in and how it is treated. Society forces a person to want to fit into it and, depending on the society, gives the person either more good or more evil. For example, a person exposed to a more …showed first 75 words of 475 total…

…showed last 75 words of 475 total…a crime. I don?t think that human mind structure has changed that much in the past two hundred years. The reason African-Americans are not thought of as animals is because of change in society. So society has the greatest impact on people. I also think that society itself is slowly becoming less evil. By this I mean that people are beginning to think about how to preserve nature and be kinder to each other.