My job is to learn how to make good decisions instead of just being a puppet to my genes, my cultural training, and my defense mechanisms. In doing this, I will be a part of the micro-evolution of our species instead of contributing to its stagnation and destruction. I do not believe our destination is predetermined other than dust to dust at the end of life.
People are basically good.
After we are born, we get taught a lot of things and some of that is good, some is bad. Bad is not healthy for us or for anyone. Good is made up of things that help our health, help us to evolve without hurting somebody else in the process. On the bad side, all people in the world get loaded down with a bunch of selfish, self-right, superior thoughts on the one hand, and a bunch of inferior, hurt, unloved thoughts and feelings on the other hand. On the good side we receive healthy ideas and nurturing feelings from those around us.