CMV: I don't believe people are fundamentally good. : r/changemyview

There is so much unnecessary suffering in the world. Hunger, violence, hate, war etc. The only thing stopping world peace is just for people to stop fighting each other. There is more then enough food to feed everybody, but still so many are hungry. In the western world, people will kill each other over matters that seem banal when contrasted to the fact that children are dying by the millions (six million per year).
There is absolutely no reason for this other then that people are only good as so far it's good for them to be good. Civilization is only skin deep. Once people are really challenged, so few pas the test. We praise those who do, these unlikely heroes, precisely because we know it's not in our nature to act unselfishly. We are just animals. Though evolved to be intelligent and social, still unable to create the paradise we can all imagine. And even though we may have, as Rousseau puts it, 'the softest of hearts', our heart is still so much blacker then we like to think it is.
Change my view.
Edit: There seem to be a couple of returning points that i shall address here.
Saying people are not fundamentally good is not saying people are bad/evil.
If we can't define what is good or bad (or define what morality is), then people can't be fundamentally good.
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