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Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor who got the conviction against Charles Manson, wrote a simple dismissal of the common belief that people are inherently good and tend to do the right thing--want to do the right thing. I paraphrase.
If you came out of the mall to find your car damaged and a note on the window with the other driver's name and phone number you would be surprised, especially if you called the number, the person answered, admitted that they hit your car, were in a hurry and would be glad to pass along insurance information so as to get your car repaired. The reason you would be surprised is that people who do this are extraordinarily rare. It is not human nature to admit wrongdoing, it is human nature to flee, to look around for a witness, not see any and quickly drive away. Therefore I do not subscribe to the popular idea that people are inherently good.
Granted, he was an L.A. prosecutor and had seen a lot of sh it in his career, but that does explain human behavior. Most of the time.
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