>>If I can't do the right thing without God, or Jesus, or a church Elder looking over my shoulder, then I have no right calling myself a decent human being.
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>Just curious Alan.
>Do you believe that humans are NATURALLY good?
Sure. Otherwise the homo sapiens as a species wouldn't survive.
Though, I generally define "good" as "good for humankind" :).
The particular definition of good, though, would exclude any violence and coercion - and then, that's a social thing. If you mean "naturally" as "regardless of society" then your question is meaningless. With a single human, without others, the homo sapiens can't express its substance as zoon politikon, a social being, and there's no context in which the very idea of good can exist.