Is man really bad and sometimes capable of good?

or is he truly good but sometimes turned toward

evil?

if that question will be asked in a random poll, people would give a range on answers. Some would say
that man is basically good but there is a little bit of evil in him, and some people even believe that man's
natural propensity is toward evil.

Fundamentally speaking, are humans really bad and sometimes capable of good or is he truly good but
sometimes turned toward evil? It's a question that has been asked throughout humanity. For thousands
of years, philosophers also debated whether we have a basically good nature but turned towards evil, or
a basically bad nature that is sometimes capable of good.

He is neither. There is no one either good or bad, but circumstances make them so. People are just
people, and goodness and evil exist only in the eye of the beholder. People are organisms with unique
potential for greatness and awfulness according to the conditions, experiences and opportunities that
make up their existence, and 'good' and 'evil' are subjective constructs to characterize not who they are
but what they do in response to those factors.

Our psyche build up a representation of the world we find understandable, manageable and can adapt
to. In reality things are not where we see them, nor the way we see them; sounds don't come from
where er think, memories are not replicas of our experience but dynamic constructs. Our world is such
that things are perceived as continous and changing continously in a continuous space. Society is what
plays an impact in people and the way they live. Enter quantum mechanics of the real world and things
are not anywhere, nor are they anything definite. We know them like we find them, as shown by
observations and described by statistical formalisms, but they are, as it were, beyond time and space,
only ingressing into them when forced by interaction. Likewise, we assume that people must be in a
definite moral 'position' , either good or bad but neither is true. We,like physical systems, show one
reaction or other, but are not in a state corresponding to that reaction and only to that reaction. It's not
that we are good and bad, or good or bad. Aristotle anticipated this with his notion of potentia, we are
good or bad only potentially- free to act and eventually become actually good or bad.

Let us take an example of parenting. One parent tend to think that a child's nature is unruly,
undisciplined and selfish more of a benign. Thus, these parents tend to emphasize training and
structure. While the other parent tend to think that a child's nature is innocence and goodness. The
parent tend to deemphasize structure in the child's environment. Parenting is the best example for it is
hardly the only place where we see the differences. Parenting shows the contrasts in how we choose to
eat, how we choose to use medicine and how we feel about the city life about whether we are truly
good or bad.