People have constantly tried to understand what evil really is and, if possible, how to eliminate it from their lives. But first we need to know what is being eliminated. Different people, cultures, and times have all had a different view of what evil is and how it affects their lives, and there is no real answer. For this reason, discussing whether people are born or can be evil makes no sense. The idea of ​​what evil is and whether people can be evil is relative and cannot be applied to human nature universally. The discussion about the existence of evil depends on the definition of evil. In the sense of human action, evil can be seen as consciously committing harmful acts. The idea of ​​what constitutes evil is then subjective to what a person perceives as harmful. If a society believes that an act is harmful, then it can be considered evil. However, this refutes the idea that evil can be universal, because what is harmful to one person or society may be perfectly acceptable to another. How is it that the same act is considered both bad and not bad? It is possible that in every act there is a mixture between evil and its counterpart, good. For many, good is much easier to explain than bad. Good can be considered the right or desirable quality, while evil is the opposite. If a person does something that is considered good or desirable, it must be the right action for themselves or others. If it is a good deed for oneself, then every person, according to Plato, does a good deed. A person will do what is right for them, otherwise it was not the right action for them. For Plato, evil is ignorance of right action. By being ignorant and not consciously doing evil... middle of paper ...... hey, they're not really evil. Defining people as good or bad from birth is absurd, because newborns have no conscious thoughts and all actions that occur have meanings ascribed to them by other philosophers, such as Xun-Zi . When people realize that good and evil are just things. Depending on the views of others and actions, it is possible to transcend these superficial roles. Since it is people who create the sense of evil, we cannot say that people are evil or that they are born evil, because not only is this an assumed perspective on others, which will change with different cultures , societies and eras, but the same acts can appear both good and bad, depending on the perspective in which they are seen. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the individual to decide for themselves the effects of their actions on themselves and others...