Do you think people are good, bad or a grey area?

LighterGuy · 13-02-2011 12:04am #1

Title pretty much says it all.

So whats your honest view of people in life?
Do you believe people are generally good? or that people think about themselves when it comes down to it.

good. bad. grey.

Cheap Thrills! · 13-02-2011 12:05am

grey

Ghost Estate · 13-02-2011 12:07am

Depends on the person

The_Kew_Tour · 13-02-2011 12:07am

More Blacks and Whites then grey.

Ricardo G · 13-02-2011 12:07am

Some people are good

Some people are bad

And then you've the people that are grey

KeithM89_old · 13-02-2011 12:08am

You expect to narrow down nearly 7 billion people to either 'good', 'bad' or 'grey'?? Hmmm....:rolleyes:

Micky Dolenz · 13-02-2011 12:08am

Can you repeat the question?

Gummy Panda · 13-02-2011 12:09am

I'm blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

Ghost Estate · 13-02-2011 12:10am

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Can you repeat the question?

In Soviet Russia, question repeat you!

Captain Darling · 13-02-2011 12:11am

Racist.:pac:

LighterGuy · 13-02-2011 12:13am

KeithM89 wrote: »

You expect to narrow down nearly 7 billion people to either 'good', 'bad' or 'grey'?? Hmmm....:rolleyes:

You, or anyone else are not going to meet 7 billion people in life.

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Can you repeat the question?

this is a question of yours, as well as everyone elses, perception of people you meet. (and not the 7 billion people Keithm89 will meet in his life :pac:) this is about your thoughts of people. what you believe. what you think

if you get me

Latchy · 13-02-2011 12:13am

People are unpredictable and it's not easy to put them into brackets like black , white or grey so maybe a bit of all ,better the divil ya know

bonerm · 13-02-2011 12:13am

I only know one fella who was grey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyAMBd_AC_Q

Rabble Rabble · 13-02-2011 12:19am

5% are sociopaths. rest are ok.

Jibbs · 13-02-2011 12:20am

There's no good, bad or grey. There is only Us and Them, and I really envy Them.

TeddyTedson · 13-02-2011 12:20am

People are just people. Well some are sheeple but most are just people.

cucbuc · 13-02-2011 12:21am

Good. Mostly.

Snakeblood · 13-02-2011 12:22am

LighterGuy wrote: »

Title pretty much says it all.

So whats your honest view of people in life?
Do you believe people are generally good? or that people think about themselves when it comes down to it.

good. bad. grey.

I am good, you are grey, they are bad.

It's simple!

pajor · 13-02-2011 12:23am

I have found that most people in life are liars, cheats and thieves and are generally mean.
There's only a handful of good apples in the box.

Nice metaphor if I may say so

DarkJager · 13-02-2011 12:24am

There are plenty of greys, but the majority are black/whiite. Black tend to be the pessimists, forecasting doom or picking holes in the happiness of others ( I fall into this category admittedly). Whites are the ones who will keep aa smile on thei face while their world crumbles around them. It would be a pretty dull existance if we were all the same.

O-Deazy · 13-02-2011 12:24am

People are overrated!

thenutflush · 13-02-2011 12:28am

I think that the majority of people I know are essentially good.. there's very few people I can think of that are truly despicable or malicious. I don't know many people who are completely selfless however, but I do know a few. Most people I know succumb to the universal human flaw of occasional selfishness, usually to maintain or increase their social standing ultimately, but I think they are essentially good. I guess it's a grey area, but I'd lean towards good, and I believe evilness/ maliciousness is mostly thrust upon people by their experiences growing up.

W.Shakes-Beer · 13-02-2011 12:28am

Im not sure how to take that one to be honest.

Im a fairly optimistic person myself and would chat to anyone about anything. There are however very doom/gloom pessimistic people who you would never get a smile from.

I tend to distance myself from very pessimistic people; every gas their ups and downs but you can tell by looking the people who always were and always will be negative. It's just like a characteristic trait.

To be honest I'd say its a very 50/50 division.

KylieWyley · 13-02-2011 12:40am

I believe that, for the most part, people are inherently selfish people only looking out for their own self-interests.

That's natural and acceptable- survival of the fittest and all that.

Some people do this in more considerate ways than others. However, those who are less considerate and encroach upon other peoples business or opportunities whilst furthering their own self-interests are pricks and should be considered bad.

From experience, its usually a 50/50 split between the two.

C'est la vie.. Now.. Wheres my tea?

DarkJager · 13-02-2011 12:44am

KylieWyley wrote: »

I believe that, for the most part, people are inherently selfish people only looking out for their own self-interests.

That's natural and acceptable- survival of the fittest and all that.

Some people do this in more considerate ways than others. However, those who are less considerate and encroach upon other peoples business or opportunities whilst furthering their own self-interests are pricks and should be considered bad.

From experience, its usually a 50/50 split between the two.

C'est la vie.. Now.. Wheres my tea?

Help the weak but always look out for numero uno before all else.....pretty simple (but selfish) mantra to live by.

LighterGuy · 13-02-2011 1:47am

KylieWyley wrote: »

I believe that, for the most part, people are inherently selfish people only looking out for their own self-interests.

That's natural and acceptable- survival of the fittest and all that.

Some people do this in more considerate ways than others. However, those who are less considerate and encroach upon other peoples business or opportunities whilst furthering their own self-interests are pricks and should be considered bad.

From experience, its usually a 50/50 split between the two.

C'est la vie.. Now.. Wheres my tea?

Have to agree with you on that one.

ManofStraw · 13-02-2011 2:01am

Grey, dark grey you can never really know what people are thinking

strobe · 13-02-2011 2:06am

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Ruu_Old · 13-02-2011 2:08am

bad bastards the lot of them.

Dangerous Man · 13-02-2011 2:10am

The majority of people are rats.

spider guardian · 13-02-2011 2:10am

People range from the absolute depths of evil to the levels of kindness seen in the care bears. it's not like serial killers are simply graded as 'bad'

Aoifey! · 13-02-2011 2:54am

Grey.

Some people lean towards the good. Some lean towards the bad. Although I would not say a person is completely good or bad. People are products of the society they grew up in, they have personal choice and free will but their upbringing will have a major role - be that good or bad.

Dravokivich · 13-02-2011 3:00am

whats wrong with looking out for numero uno?

Aoifey! · 13-02-2011 3:04am

Dangerous Man wrote: »

The majority of people are rats.

Silly, people aren't rats, rats are rats

See, person
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa431/Aoifey/person.gif
rat

amy21 · 13-02-2011 3:04am

im confused about the question

Elohim · 13-02-2011 3:10am

People fit into the categories of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
There is no grey.

dilbert2 · 13-02-2011 3:13am

LighterGuy wrote: »

Title pretty much says it all.

So whats your honest view of people in life?
Do you believe people are generally good? or that people think about themselves when it comes down to it.

good. bad. grey.

It's all subjective really. Some of the biggest lunatics and nutjobs on the planet are convinced that they are right, whereas they will consider what is often just simple logical truth and facts to be "bad" and untruthful. So I am going to say that goodness should be considered a grey area, because it is subjective and definitions of what is good and bad can be abused and used toward one’s own end – and in particular, against those they don’t agree with.

dilbert2 · 13-02-2011 3:14am

Elohim wrote: »

People fit into the categories of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
There is no grey.

That was one kick ass film!

.same. · 13-02-2011 3:18am

everybody I ever met is wonderful

LighterGuy · 13-02-2011 3:31am

Pretty interesting posts so far. Alot I agree with

Aoifey! wrote: »

Grey.

Some people lean towards the good. Some lean towards the bad. Although I would not say a person is completely good or bad. People are products of the society they grew up in, they have personal choice and free will but their upbringing will have a major role - be that good or bad.

Agree.
But Aoifey,
Something I guess I, and surely everyone else, struggle with is say societies 'reception' of "good and bad" - like, someone does a bad turn on you. A legit / 100% them looking out for their own interests and not caring about you and thus hurting you. Which would make them a p*ick being on the recieving end. But another can say "I think they are alright".

The ultimate question is that a 'grey' area... or the true person coming out? If you get me,

dilbert2 wrote: »

It's all subjective really. Some of the biggest lunatics and nutjobs on the planet are convinced that they are right, whereas they will consider what is often just simple logical truth and facts to be "bad" and untruthful. So I am going to say that goodness should be considered a grey area, because it is subjective and definitions of what is good and bad can be abused and used toward one’s own end – and in particular, against those they don’t agree with.

Personally Dilbert, I think everyone justifies their actions. Weather they be good or especially bad. I've even seen people justify their actions to their conscience of all things. Doing a bad act and reasoning with themselves to how it wasnt as bad / other people would do the same / etc.

Aoifey! · 13-02-2011 3:42am

LighterGuy wrote: »

Agree.
But Aoifey,
Something I guess I, and surely everyone else, struggle with is say societies 'reception' of "good and bad" - like, someone does a bad turn on you. A legit / 100% them looking out for their own interests and not caring about you and thus hurting you. Which would make them a p*ick being on the recieving end. But another can say "I think they are alright".

The ultimate question is that a 'grey' area... or the true person coming out? If you get me,

Well it would depend on the exact situation so it really is hard to say in general. But as an action being seen as good or bad is purely based on what a person perceives as good and bad, it is hard to say that person is a "bad" person, just a person you do not get along with, if you know what I mean. Everyone is in some way looking out for themselves and trying to get forward in their own life, some people just don't notice that they hurt others in the process. Then again, there are others which know they are hurting others and just plain do not care.

I hope that made sense.

Asphyxia · 13-02-2011 3:46am

Everybody has good and bad in them some just have better control over it than others, I don't think there's a set percentage it just depends on the person.

Rubik. · 13-02-2011 9:03am

Mostly good with grey areas, but there are some complete fuckers out there.

BBDBB · 13-02-2011 9:24am

Im alright, its the rest of youse feckers that are the evil ones:p

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