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If humans are good by nature, give me some examples to support that claim.

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WHAT sort of creature is the human? The obvious answer is a smart, talkative, upright ape with a penchant for material possessions.

But what about the more subtle concept of human nature? That is more controversial. Some deny it exists, preferring to believe that we can be anything we want to be. They cannot be right.

Although we exhibit lots of individual and cultural variations, humans are animals, and like all animals we have idiosyncrasies, quirks and characteristics that distinguish us as a species. An invading alien would have no trouble categorising us but, being so close to our subject matter, we struggle to pin down the essence of humanness.

Nevertheless, the task may not be beyond us. Anthropologists have identified many “human universals” – characteristics shared by all people everywhere, which constitute a sort of parts list of our species. What if we were to use these to examine the human animal in the same way we would study any other?

As the following articles reveal, what emerges is a suite of characteristics that encapsulate our nature – and a rather peculiar one it proves to be. If you thought you knew what humans were like, then think again.

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Just to be honest, most humans are not good by nature. Yes, most of them are not, but believe me, when you think there aren't any good ones, there are. I have a "grandma" and I say it that way because she's not actually related to me at all, but I just call her that. She is super nice, and caring and never curses, unlike every, single, person in my family. She never criticizes and always supports people. And don't let the that make you think that only old people are good by nature because that's also not true. I have a friend, who is super loyal and also never puts anyone down, and just overall does nothing bad or negative. And that's also not to say that "shes just not showing her true self" because she does, she drools when she sleeps, and burps around me, and has feelings about other people like everyone does, but doesn't put anyone down and keeps to herself. She helps people in need, and would stay up all night to talk you out of sui.cide.

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