We are not good by nature. Nor is our nature from birth morally neutral. We are not plastic and easily remade and reformed to be good. It can be done but it requires a lot of work by family, parents and church to bring up a good, moral, self-controlling child.
Human nature is evil, but we are good enough, that hard work and a good will can help us move the moral meter a bit to the good side: we can change and evolve. The basic nature is fixed and unchanging but at the conscious level, we can steer that wild, wicked, savage will and nature to serve the cause of good, as millions have done before us, often quite successfully.
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