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Are humans fundamentally good, or is niceness just the thin layer of rules and consequences keeping our selfish instincts in check?
🏆 Leading: Fundamentally good — cooperation and empathy are our real default, and most cruelty in history traces back to specific systems and incentives, not human nature itself.
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Are humans fundamentally good, or is niceness just the thin layer of rules and consequences keeping our selfish instincts in check?
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Fundamentally good — cooperation and empathy are our real default, and most cruelty in history traces back to specific systems and incentives, not human nature itself.
Fundamentally self-interested — people are nice because it's rewarded and punished, and history's worst moments show what happens when that structure disappears.
Neither — "human nature" isn't one fixed thing, people are shaped almost entirely by whatever environment and incentives they're dropped into.