The Nature of Man

Viktor Frankl opined that there are only two species of humans, the decent and the indecent. That must really grate on the rose tinted glasses crowd that feels (note the emotion; that’s a clue as to whom I refer) that man is basically good. It’s such utter nonsense that it defies logic how anyone could hold the view. But, they do.

Bookworm has written a great post on The Danger of the Anne Frank Syndrome and the idiocy of the everybody is basically good philosophy.