Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by La Texican
...I want to believe the secular humanist version that people are good, everybody's "born ok the first time".  I love that bumpersticker. And I hate to entertain the thought that if not some people can never be "ok".

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I suppose that the idea that "everyone can be okay" is comforting in theory, but I think that putting it into practice can be dangerous. (Not saying you put it into practice! Just taking your idea and adding another one to it). Some people are just not okay.

Everyone is not born ok the first time.

A significant portion of the medical, legal, and psychiatric professions exist specifically because people are not born ok.