I do not accept good or bad as measurement, as they are wholly subjective. They are suitcase terms. You can put a lot into them.

People are generally what their environment makes them. If you were raised by headhunters and someone asked you if it was good that you have 5 shrunken heads, you would say, "No, my brother has 20."

All behavior is learned. It is society built by humans that is sick. Humans are not good or bad or anything. Humans are just reacting to their environment.

I see it this way,; no human who's ever lived can match the goodness, honesty and reliability of the average dog so how good can we possibly be?

We're apes: hairless, smarter, cleaner (most of us) but still apes so that's how good we can be; as good as our primate ancestry enables us to be and apes do some messed up shit. Just watch a documentary on chimpanzees to see how closely our two species resemble each other in numerous ways.

Humanity would be much better off if we'd evolved from dogs. We'd greet each other by sniffing butts but I consider that a small price to pay.

When I daily sold lunches outside the gate of a major manufacturer, many times I would extend credit to customers who were "short" (all-cash business) over a period of a year, 40-50 customers a day, only once did someone stiff me! And sometimes they would show up weeks later... even though they knew I Never wrote the debt down, too busy

we are basically animals and behaviorally a product of our environment..how we "behave" is a matter of choice.
empathy is a behavior that is observable in many species of the animal kingdom and is not unique to mankind. That said I think our system of laws and punishment are checks and balances that keep "immoral" behavior at bay in a greater percentage of our population than we might not care to admit

sadly i think that it's a close call.
but, regardless, just a small % of the population actually run the world. and the bad news is that they're greedy, immoral sociopaths.

that is the wrong definition for a good person, leaves too many open questions, instead I would use just 6 very clear traits:

1. A good person must be altruistic not egotistic
2. A good person must be humble, be very aware of his shortcomings and accurately know his abilities
3. A good person must be empathetic, understand what it is to be in other person's situation
4. A good person must be responsible, you do not pass the buck
5. A good person must be fair, free from biases
6. A good person must be honest, honesty is the best policy

I think it’s a mixed bag. Most people act lawfully towards others. We all have our good attributes, and our jerk moments, too. A majority of us do no harm, which qualifies as virtuous, I suppose.

Yes...I think humans are generally good. We all need other humans in order to survive. By being good to others we insure our own survival.

Everyone has the perception of themselves to be always good, which sometimes doesn't happen. Nobody has only faults, the same way nobody has only qualities. Even people who are considered good can end up having very bad actions. So, it's very relative. Also depends on many factors.

Some people are good. Some are not. It depends a lot on their upbringing, and the thought they put into being good as an adult.

I think most people want to be looked at as good. Being good is another story. Wanting to belong makes people do strange things good and bad.

"There are always both good and bad 'apples' to be found in every barrel," as the saying goes.
But, imho and numerous past experiences, religion breeds 'bad apples' far more than it does good ones for some unknown reason.
For example, I once was asked to help, and told I would be paid, to use my skills as a Handyman Builder to do a job of building a Walk-in Dressing room at the home of some people I thought were friends, also Christians btw.
The agreed amount of payment settle upon was about $5 per hour and the husband was to be my Assistant.
I'd start work after taking my daughter to school every morning, work through until time to collect her from school.
3 weeks I worked at the job, it WAS a big job btw.
Thankfully THEY paid for ALL materials, etc, and not me, materials alone cost approx. $1,200.
When the job was done to THEIR satisfaction I asked for my payment and was told to wait a few days while they got the money together.
I've not seen a brass razoo of it even to this day but I did another renovation style job for an older couple some weeks later, materials cost them around the same, the time span was about the same length, I got Morning and Afternoon Tea Breaks supplied as well as my lunch, unlike with the previous job, and was paid promptly at the end of each day even though I asked them to hold off until the job was completed to their satisfaction.
The older couple were as Atheist as I am and was then and we debated strongly when they tried to insist that I should take an extra $150 on top of the agreed amount paid because the job was done better than they had expected.
Moral of the story, imo, Do NOT trust supposed friends who are also Christians.

Humanity is basically good. There are bad people mixed in there, but most people are good. There are good people who just do bad things sometimes. They are still good. There are mean people but they weren't born mean, or racist. Something happened that made them mean. Then there are the Jeffrey Dahmer's or Ted Bundy's who are just fucking crazy and certainly don't represent a very large area under the bell curve. Humanity good, religion bad!

People are mostly, only as good as they were taught, and to the extent that they can muster the courage to display.

I am an optimist. People generally prefer to be in a position to help others. Even warriors are cooperative.

It is the ones that are imbued with distrust and prey on other's fears that I worry about. When a person like that gets in power, things go to hell.

Humans are not inherently good or bad. Those judgments accrue to the person depending on the consequences ofthat persons decisions and actions.

Sorry, I don't believe in the dichitomy of good vs bad. There is what works and what doesn't work, so "good" will change according to context. But, "not good" is generally the result of selfishness, those who focus on what they want to the exclusion of what works, either for the community or themselves. You might notice how in this context " not good" aligns with those who wish to enforce their "rights" without consideration of what works for the community.

Morality is subjective, it changes all the time. We make laws based on morality. My morality is treating others how I want to be treated. Treat me bad I return the favor, just as I do for good behavior.

I don't believe that people are good or evil. I believe that on average theyre somewhere in between and their choices move them into one or the other but move back over other decisions.

Generally good. Goodness is a survival tactic.

I think that the maddness of today comes from the belief that we are inherently "bad.". That the guilt taught from a psycho philosophy, driven by religions, has caused humans to fight against their nature of goodness, toward insanity.

It is all objective and based on circumstance, within or out of our control. There are people who have benefited from Trump's position who seem to think he is the definition of good, while most who see past the con and lying would define him as evil. Hitler was admired by his inner circle and a majority of Germans at the zenith of his power and despised by those who could see through his ambitions. Even on a day to day basis, some of the worst people you may meet have people whom they may take care of or befriend who would call them good. Happens almost every time a mass murder happens and the family and friends come forward to say what a wonderful person they thought he was and they don't understand how he became this monster that killed.

I think most people are good. I like words like Virtuous, good, right, wrong. I think they describe the human condition well. I dislike words like moral, evil, sinful. I think they imply that there is a force outside of humanity that defines if we do good or not.

Man is a tribal animal and co operation within the tribe was essential for the common good.
Give those attributes names like morality. ethics etc and let the religious leaders commandeer them and you have the writings in the old testament.
Everything the Jewish tribe did to further their aims was good, godly,. Everyone one outside the Jewish tribe was bad, ungodly,