Is Man Inherently Evil?

Man, inherently evil or good? A question that only opinions can answer. What is evil? Killing 'is evil,' rape 'is evil,' torture 'is evil,' and man 'is evil.' History and a certain familiar book show evidence that supports that man is 'evil.' "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft. interred with their bones," a quote from Shakespeare. The 'good and just' deeds done dies with the people who accomplished it. Nothing is inherently good.

Scientists theorize that humans evolved from apes, invalid and untrue. Human's instincts remain, and they will never be bred out. Every year, month, week, day, hour, minute, and second the instincts that drive us cause our loved ones to die in battle, in torture, and in pain. Greed, lust, and rage fuels the world's wars that destroys humanity one blow at a time. Want of Kuwait's oil and goods by Iraq pushed Americans to send soldiers to the small country to help protect it. If there was no greed, people would not be risking their lives over a small country in the middle east. That wouldn't be the first time primates killed for greed. Monkey's, gorillas, apes, and baboons fight for mates, territory, and food, just like humans. Those animals have their own wars with each other. If what scientists say about evolution is true, then why does man remain the same?

Aside from scientific studies, life and realistic fiction verifies that the good in men outlives itself. The purest of mankind, indisputably, resides as children. Impressionable and indecisive, youths learn from their parents, and others near their own age. In the novel Lord of the Flies, a group of tykes are marooned on an island with no adults present. The kids set up a micro society where a leader is picked and regulations are established. Throughout the novel the adolescence deal with three deaths of their own, two of which were on purpose. Ralph's tribe brawled about in a primal dance, circular in formation, while pretending to hunt a pig. The babes kept