Debate: Is human nature naturally good or bad
Side: bad

Do you expect me to accept a perspective as valid when it's wrong?I never indicated that I expect anything from you, nor do I. My statements are not made to convince you, nor with any attachment to eliciting a particular response; in this we differ.The only thing you are substantiating is your own death. & You do not substantiate your existence. You did not cause your existence, you do not have the power to end your existence.I presented a rationale as to why my awareness of my self is a substantiated certainty to myself. In fact, that is the only thing I substantiated with certainty. This does not mean that I believe I caused my existence or that I believe I have the power to end my existence; as it happens, I do not believe either to be the case since I am an evolutionary determinist.It is not rationale to assume your existence ends in death, that is wishful thinking and it's insame.I have read numerous studies on the conscious self and its relationship to the brain. I can observe that people die, that upon death there are no brainwaves, and that eventually too the brain itself rots away to nothing. It is not an unreasonable conclusion to draw from this basis that my self will cease to exist when I die. By contrast, there is no evidence whatsoever of any form of an afterlife in which the self lives on without the brain which produces it. My conclusion is entirely rational; the same cannot be said for yours.I do not reject life after death because I desire my own final mortality. I have a human instinct for survival the same as most people. Reconciling my views on final mortality with my survival instinct was not the easiest course of action I could have taken, as you seem to imply; religion is much easier.You are not God [...] no matter how long your dying continues.I have stated explicitly and repeatedly now that I do not think I am God. I have never stated that I think I have the right or power to "unexist" myself either; I simply do not attribute my eventual non-existence to your God.The proof of my reiterated claims is your dying. The only thing that proves is that I am dying, which I have already accepted.You are not living, you are dying. [...] only to yourself as you are dying.I do not conflate life and death but view them as distinct; life is a state of existence and death is a state of non-existence. You, on the other hand, are fooling yourself into believing they are one and the same by denying your own mortality through your belief in life after death. I don't mean for this to be a personal attack, [...] have you ever thought it's because you are guilty?I use "personal attack" as common debate parlance; it refers to the logical fallacy of attempting to discredit your opponent based on their real or perceived attributes rather than discrediting their arguments. I do not feel threatened by your allegations regarding my sanity, and not only because I consider them invalid. When you focus upon me rather than upon my arguments you are not debating, you are just making noise. You do not know any of the claims you are advancing beyond the claim that I am dying. You believe these things, and that is a very important distinction. No matter how strong your conviction in your beliefs they are still beliefs, not knowledge. You clearly think that the reality of death proves your beliefs, but every attempt you have made to draw that connection has been logically fallible.