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Do you think man kinds capacity for good is equal to his capacity for evil?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Interesting.

    It's better to relate this to yourself or oneself.

    Nothing is good or bad; thinking makes it so

    William Shakespeare

    What are your capacities; ( you may not entertain or use them) but what are the lengths you can conceive of YOU going to ?

    We are all the same . We react in different ways.

    There but for the "GRACE" of "whatever" Go I (or you)

    You canot know the mind of every man on this earth but you can know yours;

    Will you love your children? Do you?

    Will you seek revenge? Did you?

    Will you betray another? Have you?

    Are you charitable? Is it enough ?

    Do you forgive and forget ? Really?

    Do you expect other humans to behave as you haven't? Why?

    Are you procrastinating as I do ? Are you ?

    M

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe it's circumstantial. In the words of a famous someone, "Evil succeeds when good people do nothing". If the quality of man is admirable, than his capacity for good greatly surpasses his capacity for evil. But of course, it all depends on the interpreter of his actions. From a bystander's point of view, his actions may seem evil. This truly cannot be measured accurately without the conversion of several different points of view.

    Source(s): 14 year old girl (:
  • 1 decade ago

    I really believe that mankinds capacity for evil is greater.

    But how to define evil ?

    How to define good ?

    It all depends on the morality of the era/society you live in.

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe that everyone has good in them.Some people have had a evil act preformed upon them. This sometimes causes something to change the psyche to reenact the experienced evil

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  • 1 decade ago

    Yes i believe that it is relatively equal if not entirely. but i also believe that man is more willing to do evil than good because man are generally selfish.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    who are we to judge what is good or evil? when one person loses, someone automatically must win. good and evil contradict themselves on too many levels to be able to say which is which.

  • no i do not! have u seen all the in-justics of the world today. its only some but it over takes the the good of others

  • Eve
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Yes, simply because we Are capable of both.

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