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    Good or Bad? Do you ever wonder if you are good or bad? The potential for evil scares many people. Most people these days strive to be the best they can be. They want to have excellence and do the best to their ability‚ but they do evil acts that make them the total opposite. Throughout history humans have shown that they can be evil; however‚ there are more people that possess a trait of being good. There are many ways people can be depicted as being “good”. One of those ways would be someone

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    The natural way of how one acts‚ feels and thinks refers to ones human nature. “Nature” refers to something us as humans have acquired naturally. We’re going to be focusing on if humans are born good or evil by human nature. Good‚ meaning morally right and evil meaning morally wrong or bad. Did we come into this world with a predisposition for good deeds‚ good thoughts and good intentions? Or are we inherently bad‚ destined for evil acts‚ and evil desires? Many argue goodness is inherited

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    Good Action/Good Person I consider a good action to be something that helps others and is unselfish. Within the last year I have helped my Grandma through her cancer treatments. I believe that this is a good action because it was helping my Grandma in a time of need when she needed an extra hand. I took time out of my school schedule in order to help her get to and from the treatments‚ helped her around the house and visited with her giving moral support. I would get up early and drive her to the

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    always arisen about what is human nature. Is it in our nature to be good or is it our nature to be evil? Many philosophers have joined the debate taking stances on either end of the spectrum‚ while some try to pose alternative answers. Thomas Hobbes believes man’s nature to be bad. He claims humans to be naturally selfish‚ like animals we are driven by our own passions. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. believed that man is naturally good. They believe man’s nature to be a state of harmony

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    Fast Food Good or Bad Everyone should think twice before deciding to eat fast food. There are many health risks when it comes to eating food that’s made within a matter of seconds. The food is not properly taken care of‚ which leads all the way back to where the food is originally produced. Even if it is easy to buy and cheap‚ the health risks outweigh the five minutes of satisfaction that fast food brings. One should carefully think before they eat fast food. The health risks that come from

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    Human Nature According to wikipedia.org the definition of human nature is defined as ʺHuman nature refers to the distinguishing characteristics‚ including ways of thinking‚ feeling and acting that humans tend to have naturally‚ independently of the influence of culture ʺ. Everyone has a different say on what human nature is because we are all different and we all see human nature as a different thing. Part of human nature is each individual having their own identity‚ opinion and reaction towards

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    The Good‚ The Bad‚ The Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is one of the largest companies in the U.S. is Wal-Mart really what we need? Wal-Mart is a discount store that is bad for America and the economy and other smaller company that may be competition for Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is a big company and offers people discounts for the same products another companies may be charging higher for. So of course you would rather buy it cheaper‚ which now is putting the other business out of business and also people that

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    Human Nature: Good or Evil? Is human nature to be good or evil‚ selfish or kind? Humans are biologically predisposed to have an egocentric perspective in order to survive. Does this selfishness make us “evil”? In simple words‚ no‚ but nothing is ever “simple”. Evil occurs when this egotism over rights other people’s physical‚ mental and/or emotional safety. In other words‚ someone becomes evil when they become corrupt and abusive. Evil is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as “profound immorality and

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    The Nature of Bad Faith Jean-Paul Sartre was a French novelist‚ existentialist‚ and philosopher. Throughout his life‚ he created several important writings. One of them is his Play: The Flies‚ where he depicts his philosophy and ideas. The Flies relates the story of Orestes‚ son of King Agamemnon‚ who returns to his native city fifteen years after Aegistheus murdered his father. In the play‚ Orestes meets his sister Electra‚ who has waited for his arrival in order to avenge their father’s death

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    Are Good According to Nature" T he obstacle of figuring out the nature and instinctual behavior of humans has been toppled by many philosophical writers. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Niccolo Machiavelli‚ in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and The Prince‚ subsequently‚ talks about this subject. In the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality‚ Rousseau talks about the natural human state and is transition to its current civilized state. In The Prince‚ Machiavelli talks about the nature of humans

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