Chinese tradition recognizes that human nature is inherently good, but the evil on earth has not changed. Why?

We believe that human nature is inherently good, I believe that most people are in the traditional cultural education "Three Character Classic"? The beginning of man, nature is good? Learned and produced cognition. In fact, our country's ancient Xunzi is one of the representatives of the human nature to support the human nature is evil, just in the compulsory education of cultural textbooks did not mention. So our cognition, human nature is inherently good, but why is good, Western culture and that human nature is evil, I believe that most people have not thought about why, that human nature is inherently good or evil?

There is no such thing as good and evil in the laws of nature, but human civilization defines good and evil

Before answering this question, we must first understand the definition of good and evil in human civilization. When an adult satisfies his own interests through trickery, the definition of him in human society tends to be evil, but it cannot be said that this person is good or evil by nature, because he may be influenced by his family education or the environment he was exposed to.

But into the animal world, such as the East African savannah, every day is full of killing, full of the weak and the strong. Large carnivorous beasts will deprive other animals of their lives for their own survival, and the same is true of predation, where felines will kill other animals before feeding, and animals such as hyenas and wild dogs will often eat other animals alive.

At this point, we would not say that herbivores are inherently good and carnivores are inherently evil, because we refer to these behaviors collectively as the laws of nature, that is, there is no such thing as good or evil, because the hunting methods and behaviors of the different animals are all driven by their nature. When a beast is no longer ferocious, then some outside intervention must have intervened, such as the lions in the circus, which are the result of human domestication, and this result does not represent the nature of the lions.

In fact, human beings are also animals, only that we define ourselves as higher animals, surviving in human civilized society, we are bound by a lot of things, changing, to know whether human nature is good or evil, we have to judge from the good and evil behaviors defined by human beings.

Human nature is inherently evil, why?

The goodness and evil of initial human nature can only be explored in an environment where humans are not subjected to any outside influences or interference. At this time, we need to make a hypothesis, suppose there are 100 babies born, we put them in a closed room, to solve their survival needs, but will not let them contact with anyone and any products of modern civilization, everything returns to the primitive.

When they can act independently, gather these children into a large room, and then offer to satisfy each of them meals piled up, these children will appear to be courteous to each other and evenly distributed, or to engage in snatching and attack? The answer must be snatching, and in the process of snatching there would even be attacks on each other, which, from this detail, has been in accordance with mankind's desire for ? evil? s definition.

This assumption has nothing to do with when they were brought together, and even if they waited until they grew to adulthood, the result would be the same.

Actually this assumption is not an assumption, mankind has developed from primitive societies with this assumption. From the Stone Age to today, no matter which race or tribe, no matter in which corner of the earth, war has always existed, it is only the modern civilized society that is bound by super weapons and their respective laws, which constrain the behavior, but not the nature.