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Not innate but some people will breach mores more readily than others under similar circumstances. Some people feel deep shame and failure if they have to steal

• altruios 1y ago
  > some people will breach mores more readily than others under similar circumstances > Not innate These two thoughts seem to be in conflict. You are describing an innate difference. I agree there is nuance. We are a product of our environment and innate nature. I suspect the environment is (far: by orders of magnitude) easier to change. I don't think we only need to change the environment, but I would venture the 80/20 estimation here... This says nothing for 'truly evil' people, which - I suspect - is a vanishingly small number of people. I also think that such people require a degraded environment to operate effectively (according to their goals) and by focusing on improving the conditions people are in: we remove a lot of leverage for those people to act as they wish (maliciously).