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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV:Humans are inherently good.
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The subject of "good/bad" comes up a lot and is taken for granted, so allow me link an overview on that before we continue:

>*Two sizable meteorites are heading into the inner Sol system, one for Venus and the other for Earth. Which is evil? This is not a trick question. The one headed for Earth is evil. Why is it evil? Because it will wipe out all life. Why is that a problem? Because we have a goal to live. In wider reality neither meteorite has a partisan position, motives, or anything to answer for. They're amoral. You understand that they're amoral because they're without goals. You understand the one as evil because it's about to subvert the very serious goal of living.*

>*Given the scope of information, the only way to divide the universe into two clear-cut categories like good and evil is by having a goal. Good is that which supports the goal, and evil is that which subverts it. Without a goal, everything is just events, like the goalless Venusian landscape being hit by a big rock. So. What.*

>*The idea of a wider cosmic good and evil is the idea that the Creator has a goal (which is sensible even from an agnostic perspective because life). Good is that which supports God's wider goal, and evil is that which subverts it. There is literally no other way to split information and deeds as beneficial or subversive without a goal. In real time they just occur, whereas goals usually have to do with the future and higher reasoning.*

Therefore the idea that humans are inherently good assumes (1) there is a definite cosmic goal, and (2) humans are inherently inclined to support that goal, and (3) diversions from that goal are the cosmos' fault. That line of reasoning is self-contradictory obviously. You should change your view because it recursively puts blame on the cosmos for the goal and the breaking of it, while the individual is the victim. If this were the case, there are no victims because for it to work the victim must have no goals (being a complete tool of the cosmos) and therefore cannot be a victim who's having their goals subverted. It's circular.

On "born evil", this *is* possible under certain conditions. If indeed there was a cosmic *political* bent then you could be born subversive by being born neutral. For example, if Caesar was God and yet you were paradoxically born without any political favor for him, and his goal was votes and political support for some bizarre reason, then the infant would be subversive in their apathy until fully molded. This is the idea within Christianity that you're referencing, as you're evil until you come to support Jesus (regardless if you oppose him), and aren't born supporting Jesus. Therefore, you're born "evil" or subversive. That is technically possible under those conditions, which the church aims to prove or intimidate people into believing are real.

This is also the objective of anti-Semitism and colonial missionary work. If those apathetic or negative towards Jesus are allowed to live, then they prove the premise that reality is against them is wrong. God's work or Jihad, then, is to destroy heathens and prove the premise of a politically inclined God. The "winner" is implicitly supported by God, and not a murderer. This is also peppered with assumptions of determinism over free will and accountability; a fatalistic world and not a proving ground.

Your view is sort of the opposite of that, that people are born supporting the cosmic goal and are subverted by the cosmos later. Your view may be a reaction or reply to the Christian view. In reality, people are probably are born supporting an unknown cosmic goal in the act of living and growing, and probably later subvert themselves through resenting and blaming the conditions of existence as valid than personal goals. Usually the subversive conditions are man-made. Most world evil (starvation, war, abuse) are artificial, and have to do with strange, often megalomaniacal goals creating strange and cruel conditions by people who resented reality and wished to enhance it. That is, people who weren't inherently good spreading their evil.