Isn't the Substance That Has Incoded in It Compassion?

There's an idea in buddhism that humans are fundamentally good. That everything else, everything a human does that involves hurting other people is just an ignorance of what we really are. So the answer could be, if we're looking at it from a spiritual end, that these substances are er er, kind of, you know, wiping off the wind shield or something. But it's the reason, that's the message these things seem to keep giving us. Isn't necessarily it's the substance that has incoded in it compassion?