Final blog

1. Question
I choose the question that asks do human beings have a natural tendency to good, a natural tendency to evil, or some combination of tendencies. A natural tendency to good means a good action or behavior. A natural to evil I would consider as negatives thought.
Tendency to good and evil are related to the ethic because both words are considering right or wrong of people action.
2) Conceptual Clarifications
People are naturally tendency to good and to evil, however since being good gives certain social advantages and imperatives it has transcended into our cultures as evolutionary imperative. In other words, people just care about themselves and their friends and family because its beneficial to them in the long run and are naturally cruel creatures as much as any other natural predator is.
(3) Answer:
A natural tendency to good and to evil are some how accurse in people mind any time in daily basis. I think that people are born neither good nor bad, but simply are. From birth, anybody (as in humanity) is generally self serving. A child throws a fit if he cannot get what he wants, until he is taught other wise. In any situation, unless you have learned or been taught a belief differently, you will be completely self serving. It is the natural order to look after your self. In order for this not to happen, something stronger has to take over that sense of self first. Love is one of those things that does this. The love of another human, the love of a child, even the love of a pet will cause you to do things decidedly against your built in nature to look after yourself first. That is why the Bible says to love others as you love yourself, because you love yourself very much. Even if you don't think you do, you are not looking at your life very well. If you feed yourself when your hungry, if you sleep when you tired, if you wash when your dirty, then you love yourself. That is why you do things that are self serving, not because you are bad, but because you look after yourself first, you will do anything to satisfy your own needs and desires unless taught differently.
(4) Example:
If raised in society, and presence of other humans, you would have the influence of society. There is no need to kill in order to survive in the present time. Then, I think, if everybody has the influence of both instincts and society, it is truly his or her choice which path to follow. One may be born with a tendency toward either good or bad, but no one is born with a predetermined path, in my opinion. I also think that in birth, you are always born 'bad', but with the influences coming later on, from around you, you may decide if to stay that way, or improve.
(5) Word Count:
Words count 450
(7) References:
Ruggiero. (2008). Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues. McGraw Hill.
Charles. (1997).The Good and Evil of Humans. New York: Broadway Books