Are people inherently evil or good or do they just become bad after they become president ?
361688
haha, good one. \nBut seriously, I don't think he's bad. Just ignorant, which could be a lot worse.
650163
You're not bush bashing? Too bad. i thought i'd found a kindred spirit. Lol. Anyways, if i believed in a heaven and hell, i'd say Bush would be going to the deepest circle of hell. The one reserved for the Hitler's and the Stalin's. Though he's not quite as bad as those two, he still belongs in that category.
430878
Yeah,Good or bad your in the history books.Heck of a reason to be President though.Don't you think Mr.Bush?
1115386
"Good" depends upon an individual person's upbringing and each one's personal definition of good. Tarzan, though a fictional character, grew up with no knowledge that any "religion" existed, Christian, Islam, or other. To him, "good" was probably letting one of his monkey friends have the last banana and evil was somebody stealing his banana. \n\nWithout knowledge, all we have to go on is experience. When we are young, we learn by seeing what our parents and those around us do. We are not born knowing what absolute good and evil are. We are in some ways like a computer program. We have to have someone program us to tell us what good and evil are and then we become game players and choose to be good or to be evil.\n\nI'm always facsinated by the concept of age determining our ability to make our own decisions. In the United States, the law says you cannot be tried as an adult (except in certain cases, usually involving murder) if you are under 18, because the law assumes that you don't know right from wrong until you turn 18, when you magically know.\n\nI believe that we learn at a very young age what's good and what's evil, from our own cultural standpoint. What's unclear is the levels of gray and whose version of good and evil is the "correct" one, if such a thing exists.
1129886
Unfortunatly the bad guys are winning right now, if you're a good person don't change and do whatever you can to persuade others\nthat that's the way to live a life, not doing whatever they can to screw people or just screw with their heads.
381567
Most liberals think they are good because they want to take things that people work hard for, and give them to people who are 'less fortunate'.  And by less fortunate, I mean people who decided not to go to school and learn something, and people who are too lazy to get a job because they will lose their welfare checks if they do.
30798
A philosopher from the 1800's said, Soren Kierkegaard, said that the nicer you are, the more that some people will despise you.  Kind of like the bigger the good, the bigger evil is attracted to it and then repelled by it.  \n\nBeing good may not always benefit you, but it will always benefit at least one other, so that makes it all worth it.
89121
A good President should be corrupt, credulous, in bed with various special interests, and easy to bribe.  Otherwise he will make his own decisions on how the country should be run, which is a bad thing, considering most of the people we've had in that office.
481072
Bush isnt really Evil. He is simply dumb. He doesnt know what he is doing most of the time. He doesnt realize that he is digging a hole that will take America decades to climb out of, but that is commonplace for republican presidents. They break it, and then a Democrat is elected to fix it. This is a never ending cycle. One I dont see stopping anytime soon.
195089
I think good and evil are artificial constructs Man has created. As Emerson said, if you drew a line between good and evil, you would cut across every human heart.
21201
Bad things happen to good and bad people both. It only seems like an injustice when it happens to a good person. Often, good people are people who have overcome bad circumstances.
277742
No one is born evil.\n\nYour idiocyncracies are taught to you.\nImpatience, abuse, temperment... All learned.\nFortunately, we can be cured of it through years of therapy.\n\nLove, support, and success are also learned.\nBut it's easier to understand and accept.
680555
since you can not rate a president during his term , but after 15 to 20 years. we need to see where the middle east and terrorist power stand after his stance. Good economy more jobs more people starting their own business. sure he will be rated as a good president.
249508
No President will succeed:\n\n"[If a] people [are] so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control, their reformation must be taken up ab incunabulis. Their minds [must] be informed by education what is right and what wrong, [must] be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments, proportioned indeed, but irremissible. In all cases, [they must] follow truth as the only safe guide and eschew error which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:234
798827
Is man good? You are knowledgable. I have seen your questions and replies....you seem to have a head on your shoulders. So. Like law regarding entropy, is man born going from good to better, or is man born and molded, pushed, punished, terrorized, into beinf what we call morally acceptable? I, as an opinion, can not believe in an'inherent goodness' in man. I just look at a child who is becoming self aware, and the first things learned are "NO!", screaming for attention, taking toys from others...doing everything we have to teach them not to do. They do not come out and learn politeness and giving, first. They are changed into that.
878153
Bush? Evil?  Patriotic soldiers? Brainwashed?.....\n\nSeriously?\n\nNo really; Seriously?\n\nThe insolence of some people absolutely astounds me.  Your question's type-o's I can ignore, it's the stupidity of the question itself I cannot.  Bush is not evil.  Hitler was Evil.  Stalin was Evil.  Saddam was Evil.  Bush is idealistic.\n\nSoldiers are not Brainwashed.  every American Soldier today joined the military of their own free will.  They raised their hands and VOLUNTEERED! They are brave, honorable men and women who risk their lives so that you can sit on your computer and make moronic generalizations....Screw You.
1029985
depends on who's perspective you look at...if you want to be one of the flock, then yes it is...and Bush is Satan incarnate....come on now people...everyone has a twisted view of what's good and what's evil...when in reality...the line that separates each has been blurred many years ago and it's all about common sense now.