Dennis Prager

I have a relationship with him and I have no relationship with the stranger.

So that's what set me off in this direction.

When you understand that everyone is created in God's image, doesn't mean people are basically good, by the way, which is a very important point in the book and in my philosophy of life.

I'm in the Judeo-Christian outlook, by the way, doesn't believe that people are basically good.

Only the secular enlightenment in France posited that people are basically good.

It's a brand new idea in the history of idea.

Yeah, right.

Oh, it's unbelievably important.

For example, if you believe people are basically good, then you will think, as a parent, you don't have to...

raise children to be good, you just have to give kids love.

But if all you give is your kid love, you will have a well-loved barbarian as a child.

well-funded or well-loved barbarians in our society today.

I'll give you another consequence, incredibly important one.

The belief, the widespread belief, especially among the educated, that it's the environment, not the human, that is responsible.

So because we're basically good, we can't blame the person.

We can blame something else.

It's most obvious with guns.

We blame the guns.

We don't blame the user of the gun.

It's the ramifications of the belief that people are basically good.