This is the concept that people are inherently good. If people were left alone without controls they would all tend to act in an ethical manner and decide of our own free will to do what is best

As a result of this belief, adherents believe that it is necessary to remove controls on people and to allow them to exercise their free will without interference.

Possible arguments against this position

If people really are born good then why is there any evil at all?
Obviously evil has some form of source and although evil may now be learned from the environment in which one is brought up, there must have been an ultimate source (i.e. who was the first person to teach someone else to be evil?) Assuming that we discount supernatural beings such as the devil, does this not cause the born good hypothesis to fall down?



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