If it is true that most people are inherently good as the common belief says, wh

Question:and conflicts? Why many people are still suffering from famine and poverty?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: and conflicts? Why many people are still suffering from famine and poverty?

Most people are born with the capacity to develop empathy, which is the basis of understanding others and responding to human suffering. However more than 4% of humans are incapable of empathy, and some of these people are not only criminals but highly influential political criminals (like Nixon). Traumatizing events, like seeing your parents murdered or raped, makes people brutalized. People have a strong concern for justice, but if justice is not available through the courts, people tend to resort to violence to satisfy their need for justice..
Human beings are very closely related to chimps, which are aggressive primates. The primate family can be loosely divided into an aggressive side and a less aggressive side. On the aggressive side are the chimps, humans, baboons, and monkeys. On the less aggressive side are the orangutans, gibbons, lemurs, and gorillas.
As for poverty, this is a perennial problem. There will always be droughts in agricultural areas, and this causes famines. Hungry people are desperate people and often organize themselves into bandit parties to raid more fortunate people about them. And then you have absolute disasters like Darfur, where people are willing to send in aid, but the aid is stolen by pirates.
Confucius believed that people are basically good, but that education could improve them by making them more civilized. I think he had a point. One important aspect of civilization is law. We need international law, and we need to be able to enforce it through some sort of world government.

People are inherently a product of their environment. If you're raised in violence and conditioned to accept or even promote it then that's what you'll do.

"Power corrupts". The people who are more powerful, the most likely to influence how things are done, end up being the most corrupt, and less likely to do good.

good depends on the stance often times good is looked at from outward but if u look at the people who walk by the homeless they walk in the door and pick up thier children and kiss them on the head life is hard man and some know this more then others people must get thier own noone can provide for others ben franklin one wrote" the conditions in london are better for the poor and the decrepid then any place i have ever seen more hospitals and free markets to shop in but as more is given less is accomplished they get lazier the more you give them"

Well, wars are fought over resources, money, and power. Famine and poverty are different altogether... The world, collectively, has more than enough resources to feed those you are starving... but the cost would be outrageous... so not one does anything. Political leaders, and world leaders, believe that it is cheaper to let someone starve to death than to feed them a meal... In other words, our lives aren't as important as the green.

That so called common belief is probably a rumor which was started by an evil person. After all since a method of evil people is to gain your confidence, wouldn't they hope that there are a bunch of naive people in the world who presume that they would be able to let's say persuade evil people to get in touch with the goodness in them so that they would stop being evil? That would make it so much easier for the evil ones to be successful in accomplishing what they want, because if good people are not convinced that some people are born with an evil dharma they will be less wary of them and not suspect the ultimate evil lying within their hearts. Somewhere in the old testament of the Bible it says there were some vessels (meaning people) created with the nature of Satan and some were created with the nature of Christ. In other words some were created evil and without love and some were created good and with love.