Prager On Human Nature

Prager has an excellent video out on are humans basically evil. He says they are, and he is correct. Here is where we differ: he is an altruist, a traditional conservative moralist, asserting that people are wicked from birth, are cruel, selfish and narcissistic. They need laws, religion, and a moral upbringing by loving, strict parents to raise a grateful, polite, kind, holy, loving and unselfish child, out to serve the greater good, even at personal expense, or through self-sacrifice.

I am that rare egoist that believes human nature is wicked and depraved, with some potential to do good, if children are wisely brought up. Humans from birth are selfish, cruel, violent, ungrateful, rude, cowardly, impious and unholy, unkind, hateful and hating. These bad, natural characteristics stem from deep within their souls, natures and beings, but are the result of being selfless, groupist and followers of the Evil Spirits.

If we train the children be be for themselves first, as polite, independent seekers of enlightened self-interest thorough maverizing, individual-living, learning to love the Good Spirits, the self and then others, we will have raised good children.