Keep in mind this very important point: we are massively intelligent creatures in a primitive body. Why is it that there is a sudden uprising in overweight and obese people? Because our bodies are trained to be this way – to eat and store food as much as we could, because it was never available at a corner restaurant 10,000 years ago. Of course it doesn’t help that restaurants like McDonalds and other fast foods generally sell low nutrition/high fat foods for low prices. But it does explain why many people find it very hard to lose weight, it’s not what we’re encoded to do. We weren’t supposed to live past forty years if lucky. But thanks to science, technology, and knowledge, we do. I strongly believe that many people simply revert to their default encoding at times, instead of using the willpower and strength to fight against our primitive bodies.
How does this relate to people being good or bad? Well I tend to see “good” people as ones who constantly fight and win against the monkey bodies and minds we have, who take life’s challenges head on and with gusto, who never use the excuse of “well it’s easier to not do X”, who are willing to help others even though they gain nothing in return, who constantly strive to improve themselves and their knowledge. These traits are totally contrary to the path of least resistance – doing nothing and thinking only about oneself, not learning new things or having a closed mind, being stuck in bad habits and not changing, willing to sit back and let the river of life take them down the course. Sadly it seems the latter category of people outnumber the former by a wide margin. Is this evil? I don’t think so. But I do agree that it’s no damn good.