Are most people moral?

Do you think that people in general tend to be more good than evil? Or is there more evil than good?

admin: This would assume that objective morality exists (unless you mean relatively good or evil depending on societal context or personal opinion). I do believe in objective morality.
I think of people as being filled with immoral desires. People will inevitably do immoral things since they are a part of a world that has conditions that will lead to this. I don't believe people are inherently evil by their own nature (as if you could inherit immaterial morality), just that the conditions of our world will always lead humans to immoral behavior. There are moral desires as well, but they are easy to forget.

Not everyone believes what they are doing is immoral. We use the word evil to describe what majority of us find horrific but what about when someone grew up in a household where killing is a normal daily pass time. That person wouldn't believe it is evil, that person might feel they are doing good by participating in a family activity. I believe people lean more towards the character traits of their role model. What the role model finds moral is what they find moral, hence why religion is important for humanity.

DumDum: Are you saying morality is subjective?

People are born "tabula rasa" which means "a blank plate." The have the faculty to learn and reason, but they have no content. Then they can become good or evil depending on how effectively they use their faculty to process information. This process is directed by their volition (free will).

boris7698: Do you believe in the existence of objective morality?

Yes. Small correction: I don't believe in it. I know that. It is so simple, really: there is only one reality -- that which corresponds to it is the objective. For instance: drinking arsenic is bad, because the reality is so that a person would die from it.