Is human nature basically good or basically bad - that is the question.

People tend to take a position and defend it regardless.

In my observation and experience, people from cultures with solid moral foundations tend to be good, while those from cultures without solid moral foundations tend to be bad.

However, there are always exceptions.

There are likely to be some good people and some bad people in all cultures/religions/groups, even families.

I read some very solid input from a person who moved from a culture without solid moral foundations, to one with solid moral foundations.

He said it took him decades to make the adjustment to realising, that most people in a moral culture are moral.

He continued to expect people to be basically immoral for a long time, because that was what his cultural conditioning had programmed him to expect of others.

I think people from basically moral cultures, tend to expect all people to be basically moral people regardless.

This is not the case.

Some people claim that everyone shares the same basic human values.

Criminals, terrorists, mafia, corrupt players at all levels ... ?

Liars, thieves and murderers, overt and covert, at all levels ... ?