Whether born kind or not

  This week’s theme is about personality. So today I want to talk about babies’ personality. In ancient China, there was an argument about whether babies were born kind or evil. And I will tell you about the two theories.

  One ancient Chinese philosopher called Mengzi said that human-beings were born with kindness. In his opinion, all the people had a potential desire to be kind. He stated this theory in his books. He thought all human-beings had personalities of sympathy. Because of sympathy, people would show their kindness to who were suffering from misfortune. This action is the difference that distinguishes human-beings from animals.

  In contrast, anther ancient Chinese philosopher called Xunzi thought human-beings were born evil. In his opinion, human-beings easily became bad due to temptation outside. This phenomenon can testify that human-beings were born evil. As a result, people needed laws and morality to restrict their behaviors. That is to say, in his theory law played a rather important role. In this way they were able to be kind step by step.

  However, I think maybe babies are born with nothing. They know nothing about the world, the society and others. And the environment plays an extremely role in their personality’s forming. For example, if Hitler was born at present, he could not become such a horrifying person like whom in world war two. That is to say, for me it is the environment factors babies’ personality; they are born with nothing.