I expect this is very susceptible to opinions about human nature. To someone who thinks humans ARE generally nice, they are likely to answer “yes, of course” to your question. To someone who thinks humans are generally extremely context-sensitive, which appears to be nice in the co-evolved social settings in which we generally interact, the answer is “who knows?”. But the latter group doesn’t need to be convinced, we’re already worried.
Surely nobody thinks that all humans are nice all the time and nobody would ever fake a niceness exam. I mean, I think humans are generally pretty good, but obviously that always has to come with a bunch of caveats because you don’t have to look very far into human history to see quite a lot of human-committed atrocities.
I expect this is very susceptible to opinions about human nature. To someone who thinks humans ARE generally nice, they are likely to answer “yes, of course” to your question. To someone who thinks humans are generally extremely context-sensitive, which appears to be nice in the co-evolved social settings in which we generally interact, the answer is “who knows?”. But the latter group doesn’t need to be convinced, we’re already worried.
Surely nobody thinks that all humans are nice all the time and nobody would ever fake a niceness exam. I mean, I think humans are generally pretty good, but obviously that always has to come with a bunch of caveats because you don’t have to look very far into human history to see quite a lot of human-committed atrocities.