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If people weren't fundamentally good would there be peer pressure to give more than you need to?
by sanswork 15y ago
If people weren't fundamentally good would there be peer pressure to give more than you need to?
- makmanalp 15y agoI'll play devil's advocate: Damn right they would. Your argument assumes that if they aren't good, they must be evil. This is plain wrong. Many people are neither, and just float in between. Society and peer pressure in general serve to drag people towards the more honest side of the spectrum. Arguably, it's the reason society exists at all. We gather together and make up some rules (that ostensibly make us give up some things) in order to make life and relations more predictable and tame. ---------- Slightly related tangent with devil's advocate level 2: In contrast, if people aren't fundamentally evil, why can't we do without society?