Locke Vs. Hobbes: Is Human Nature Good Or Evil?

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Is Human Nature good or evil? That’s the question and debate that has been asked for decades and still is to this current day. The most famous debate over this was Locke v. Hobbes. Locke thought people were naturally good, on the other hand Hobbes thought people were naturally evil. I side with Locke and I think that people are naturally good and try to be the best person they can be. 75% of people in the world are good people, but there are those people that are bad, but most of the time those bad people aren’t born bad. Most of those bad people just were brought up in bad places or were influenced in the wrong way, but that doesn’t make them naturally born bad. It just means that something changed so they changed with it, in the wrong

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