Human nature by the measure of man. According to many social scientists, man isn't born bad. He's ruined by his environment. Even though human selfishness and greed are legendary, the tendency is to see them as being written by the chalk of social pressure on what begins as the empty blackboard of innocence. According to the human perspective, we all begin with a clean slate.
Human nature is amoral until it begins to interact with society.
There seems to be a lot of sense in this approach to human nature. The only problem is that it doesn't take into consideration the original design and present evaluation by the Creator Himself. Human nature by the measure of God. Here we find everything but neutrality. Here we find a description of human nature that is at once far more complimentary and far more critical than you will find in any social science textbook.