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    6 days ago

    It was quite a blow to my “all humans are inherently good” mindset, I’m now going with “all humans probably have some deeply rooted cultural biases”.

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        5 days ago

        Maternal instincts, the lived experience of kindness between friends and neighbors, and the last 10,000 years of gradual but undeniable improvements in social equity could argue this point.

        I might also argue that humans are fundamentally good, but still highly mutable. So a few bad apples really can spoil the bunch.