It is critical that a society requires an authority, because people are so self-interested that society will become corrupt. For example, in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, when the boys first settled in the island, they had an efficiently running society run by a leader, Ralph. However the community that the deserted boys built came in ruins because there was no absolute authority and the other boys prioritized their own self-interests: hunting. Most of the boys ended up becoming savages, killing their own friends. This shows that humans are naturally evil because the boys’ self-interest led to several deaths and chaos. In …show more content…
For example, in a social baby experiment, carried out by Professor Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University shows that humans are naturally born to be good. In this experiment, babies are given choices between two dolls, one of which committed a bad deed, such as preventing the other doll from lifting a lid of a box. Each baby given a choice chooses the doll that did not commit a bad deed. This shows that humans are able to distinguish between good and evil starting from a premature age. According to Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at University of California: Berkeley, humans are naturally compassionate and loving toward one another. He explains human natural instinct in his book, Born To Be Good. In the book, Keltner talks about how “children were tested to see if compassion was really part of human nature: children sacrificed their playing time, recess, in order to take homework to recovering children.” (D. Keltner 239). This shows that the children had an “active concern”. In another example, “a soldier was unable to shoot a wounded enemy soldier who looked like he was having a hard time surviving” (D. Keltner 225). This showed that the soldier had compassion for the wounded, although an enemy, by saving or sparing his life, and that people can be naturally