Are we wired for goodness?

[JLT]

Does anyone here take seriously that we are the promise and we must make the promise, that all the possibility we see is within our grasp? We wanted Freedom and we damn well have freedom.
yeah man

Like: "Be the change you want to see in the world?" Yes.
Like: "The limitlessness of my future is not to be impeded by the needs or desires of other people?" No.

[Amskeptic]

Does anyone here take seriously that we are the promise and we must make the promise, that all the possibility we see is within our grasp? We wanted Freedom and we damn well have freedom.
yeah man

Like: "Be the change you want to see in the world?" Yes.
Like: "The limitlessness of my future is not to be impeded by the needs or desires of other people?" No.

I discern this particular fight as a deeply personal one that must remain independent of other people. The actual effect of my actions based on the answer to the above will of course interact with the tapestry of others, but the essential question is totally within. It is at the mote of freedom, the quark of my soul. . .
(and it is 8:54AM at Starbucks, not late at night with pot fumes wafting about, as I attempt to write this)
Colin

[rallybug]

I would take it (not being an anthropologist) that Home Sapiens is a social animal in the main (there are obviously exceptions to the rule), and as such, 'goodness' is part of that social contract. We may be 'wired' that way, but that doesn't necessarily mean that each individual's wiring is correct or complete - a bad 'ground' in the wiring can happen anywhere