It is also argued that hope was simply one of the evils in the jar , the false kind of hope , and was no good for humanity , since , later in the poem , Hesiod writes that hope is empty ( 498 ) and no good ( 500 ) and makes humanity lazy by taking away their industriousness , making them prone to evil .
It is also argued that hope was simply one of the evils in the jar , the false kind of hope , and was no good for mankind , since , later in the poem , Hesiod writes that hope is empty ( 498 ) and no good ( 500 ) and makes mankind lazy by taking away his industriousness , making him prone to evil .