I too believe that people are good natured at their core, but I do not believe that the average person is behaving in a natural way. It seems to me that we are all rebelling against what is natural in one form or another, and that our concept of what it means to be good has become very liberal.

But I doubt that is by accident.I think people love that there are rapists and murderers and paedophiles out there, and that they don't really want them to be stopped completely. Because the existence of a greater crime excuses us from our lesser misdeeds. We all behave wickedly, every day, and seek to profit from one another, knowing that a profit for us indicates a loss for another. If we were to completely eliminate all of these more serious crimes from society, well then the little injustices we facilitate and partake in daily would then become the greater crimes, and all of a sudden we would have to do the difficult thing and change our behaviour. So yes, I am quite sure, that on some level, the majority are glad about those people who are more obviously evil, because they allow us to pretend more convincingly to ourselves that we're not.

I do not believe I am capable of being a father. I struggle even to feed myself and my dog, for I do not quite know yet how to live in this world. However, if at some point I do find myself up to such an immense challenge, I would sooner adopt than create a child of my own. There are a ton of children out there in need of help, and so there is no good reason I can see for anyone living right now to be creating a child rather than saving one from orphanhood.

I might check out that show. It seems to be related to what I was just talking about. I have seen Altered Carbon and love it.