Can we trust people to be good?

I think we can trust people to be good. Inside every person, there is good. When a person is acting mean, they are either trying to impress someone, or trying to make themselves feel more powerful. Also, people do things because they are influenced by their childhood environment. For example, a parent that abuses their child most likely was abused as a child.

            If a group of people were left on an island with no external threats, and adequate food and water, I think they would sometimes get along, but at other times I don’t think they would. I think that for the first couple of weeks they will get along very well because they will all need to figure thing out as a group such as what they will sleep in and where. I believe that things will run a lot smoother if they develop a set of rules. After a while, if they don’t have a specific set of rules, the group of people will become very familiar with the land and things will start to fall apart. I think there will start to become one or two people the become the “leader”, and others that become the “followers”. The problem with leaders and followers is that the “leaders” choose the rules and the “followers” don’t have a say in any of them.