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elizabeth  ·  4089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is Lying Bad?

Whether people are good or bad is a pretty complex question that has been debated for a long time by philosophers. I find that there is not real objective answer to that question (maybe for now? ) and that opinion and ideology actually ARE an argument in this debate.

I'm personally of the opinion that humanity is nor good nor bad. Can't we say that societies of monkeys have existed for a long time, thus they are good? They have pretty complex social constructs and I have trouble with the idea we actually are THAT different from monkeys. But eh, what do I know? I'm sure i haven't spent nearly as much time as you studying the question, so i'll leave it at that.