Can we trust people to be good?

Can we trust people to be good? I think that we cannot. Most people believe that everyone is good within, but I believe that even if a person is good there still might be something that causes them to act bad. For example, peer pressure is a huge thing that could cause someone to do something they know is wrong. If someone told you to exclude someone out of the group, you would know that that is not the right thing to do. Although after a while of people telling you what is right and wrong you probably will get peer pressured into excluding the person.  Inside people there is good but a lot of the time it is overcome by the bad. I also believe that we can only trust very few people and usually it is people very close to us who will know would do anything for us.

If a group of people were stranded on an island with adequate food and water and without any external threats, could they survive? My answer is a no. Yes to most people it seems that if we have all our important resources that life is good, but in reality there is so much more. Even though they have all that they need, there still is the argument of who is leader, and also the arguments of who will stay where, who will do what, and the decision of trying to keep the group together or just splitting up. After a while of being stranded on an island people may get anxious and begin to doze off or pretty much go crazy. Then all the stableness of the “society” would collapse. If they were to assign people to certain jobs such as finding food, building a shelter, and getting water, what if some of the people did not do their jobs because they feel that they do not need to listen to the “leader”. I think even with everything they need it would still be chaotic.