I'll research that, while you try a straight answer to my question, Pollyanna.
What we all do know (all meaning anyone who has a consciously-functioning brain) is that multi-millions of our fellow humans (not a few of whom were quite possibly good or even kind) who are the victims of torture, mutilation and killing on individual and genocidal scales because of religious hatred, racial hatred, tribal hatred, land envy, greed, rage, lust, power madness, and any nuance you care to think of on the Seven Deadly Sins. Our fellow humans continue to have their lives wrecked thus right up to this very hour, and show every inclination to suffer so until the last gasp of this planet.
So no, overall, the human race is not BASICALLY good, or kind - on a global scale it reflects what we are as individuals, since if we were not individually inclined towards cruelty, greed, envy, jealousy, intolerance and the rest of human malignancies, there would be no dispossession, no rape, no murder, no self-righteous lack of 'kindness', day after day, eon after eon, would there? Like tv, the big picture is made up from millions of tiny contributions.
I'd posit that those millions upon millions so viciously despatched by kings, emperors, popes, presidents, generals and their lackeys down the centuries would hardly have ticked the box for question 4 as 'yes', and might ask you if your view isn't coloured by your personal experience, rather than by looking at the bigger picture? Or that like Pollyanna, you so want to see good in all around you, that you believe it's actually there?
