Context of Personality

Critical Thinking about Personality

Why are some people bad and some people good? That’s a question that psychologists have been researching for years. The main question pondered upon is are babies born bad, good, or neutral? Following the answer to that, do the ones born bad have to learn to be good or vice versa? Technically there is not a wrong and right answer to this. I personally believe that people are born both good and bad and learn from there life choices.

I think babies are born both good and bad because babies can do bad things when they are little before they can even comprehend things. Since they cannot comprehend things like an adult, babies do not correctly know the difference between the right thing and the wrong thing. For example, if two babies are playing together and one has a toy the other wants to play with, then he/she might take that toy to play with while the other one cries because they don’t have it anymore. The baby wasn’t necessarily trying to be mean by taking the toy but they wanted it so they took it. That still counts as bad behavior in my opinion. Babies also do good things as well. This makes me believe that not only are babies born good, but also bad. What ultimately decides if a baby is going to be a good person or a bad person is the life choices they make as they grow up. I think that you can put two babies in the same positive environment and watch them grow up and one baby can still turn out bad depending on the choices he or she makes while transitioning into adulthood. One could end up going to church and having a positive group of friends who all are nice people and the other could end up being rebellious and wild.

People make choices that are good or bad. A person therefore makes a choice to engage in activities that are considered good or bad. The choices people make are usually dependent on the psychological conditioning they are exposed to, from the moment of fetal conception, to the point of completion of...