Being innately evil means to be born with immorality and wickedness automatically inside. Everyone has the evil inside of them, but not everyone acts upon this. The way we keep social order in place is teaching children from the beginning what is right and what is wrong. For example, if a child is fighting with their sibling, the parent will punish them, the same way that an adult is punished for not wearing a seatbelt while driving. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding strongly expresses how without laws and rules, a society will become corrupt. In the article “What Makes Us Moral” by Jeffrey Kluger, explains how we as humans have to fight the evilness inside of us. Humans are innately evil, but society helps to keep social order in place.
In a society, there needs to be laws and rules in order to keep everything in check. If we did not have laws the whole world would be complete chaos. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding says “We’ll have rules!” he cried excitedly. “Lots of rules!” (Golding 33) In the beguinning of the novel,