# A child finally settles the claim that people are basically good **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611 "2016-08-31T22:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/21 "2016-09-01T20:47:21Z")
I can’t evaluate this kid’s choice until I find out whether or not all those people are Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/22 "2016-09-01T20:47:40Z")
I bet the kid was coached. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/23 "2016-09-01T20:48:45Z")
If the OP isn’t just joking around: the kid’s too young to understand death. He just thought it was “uh oh.” It’s not like the toys were harmed or anything. I do actually think a real experiment done at different ages would be nice, though. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/24 "2016-09-01T21:19:28Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Destruction, like knocking all the stacked blocks down, precedes construction, stacking the blocks, in child development. A well tested and well known fact. > > What was the ‘good point’ supposed to be? The point is hilarity. If you’ve ever taken a philosophy class, you get why the video is funny. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/25 "2016-09-01T21:32:46Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > BTW: image search on “Cut in half by train” WILL turn up lots of grisly pictures. Thanks? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/26 "2016-09-02T00:59:05Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Thanks? And then you simply _must_ google “Venereal Disease” images ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/27 "2016-09-02T01:28:27Z")
I thoroughly believe that if Anne Frank could have made one more diary entry _after_ having been taken to Auschwitz, it would have been “F\*\*k that BS I said before about people being ‘good at heart.’ Some bastards are just evil.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/28 "2016-09-02T03:25:32Z")
I haven’t laughed this goddamn hard at an internet thing in so long. Thanks. [Also this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPOgvzVOQig) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/29 "2016-09-02T04:06:32Z")
Sign that kid up for the Starfleet Academy! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/30 "2016-09-02T14:22:10Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > BTBTW: image search on “cut in half by butterfly” doesn’t Is that the “butterfly effect?” ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/31 "2016-09-02T15:30:22Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I do actually think a real experiment done at different ages would be nice, though. And the only way to do a real experiment is to use real people and actually run over and kill some of those people. Shame on you **BigT**. I had thought better of you. But now that I know you want to murder innocent people just to satisfy your idle curiosity I don’t think I can associate with you anymore. Well buddy, it was fun but I gotta put you on my ignore list. You are just too heinous of a person. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/32 "2016-09-02T16:29:33Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I do actually think a real experiment done at different ages would be nice, though. Only if we keep a consistent control, like the toy trains and the wearing diapers. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/33 "2016-09-05T02:43:45Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I haven’t laughed this goddamn hard at an internet thing in so long. > > Thanks. > > [Also this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPOgvzVOQig) That cracked me up hard enough that I now have a pounding headache. And I’m pretty sure the same thing happened in a Dilbert strip many years ago, except with more swearing. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-child-finally-settles-the-claim-that-people-are-basically-good/764611/34 "2016-09-05T19:49:30Z")
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