The Depraved Nature of Humans

Langdon Gilke believed humans were naturally good until he was placed in an internment camp by the Japanese. He said, nothing indicates so clearly the fixed belief in the innate goodness of humans as does this confidence that when the chips are down and we are revealed for what we really are we will all be good to each other. Nothing could be so totally an error. Whether we want to light ourselves or not there is potential in us all to commit genocide and all sorts of other selfish evil acts. The murder rate in prehistoric times was much higher than we expected. When there was no law or fear of punishment people often did what they had to do to survive or simply just did what they