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That is absolutely against the evidence, but yes people do like to think they are naturally righteous and good.




What evidence is there that ALL humans crave power over other humans?

We're literally animals, evolved for dominance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dominance_hierarchy_sp...

One could try to argue that some of us are special exceptions. But, there's no evidence for that.

(The delightfully ironic humor of it is that people who presumably have your same point of view are down-voting me into negative)




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