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Human nature runs as follows.
I hereby declare this article better than Wikipedia's retarded mess of an article on the same subject.
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Dealing with external world
People are generally compassionate but have a sociopathic capacity given a sufficient motivation. Limits on compassion are as follows:
- Environmental factors such as incomplete information, stress, and a bad day can negatively impact compassion.
- People are obsessed with themselves primarily and their friends secondarily and don't care about strangers too much. If you point out to someone the harm they are causing far away to ensure their local happiness they will likely shrug their shoulders. This is known as outsourcing and much of civilization is concerned with maximizing it.
- People want to ensure justice and will often act mercilessly to create their sense of justice where outside sources will not supply it, with a total lack of compassion for their enemy.
- People are prone to false pattern recognition. It is possible to demonstrate a false pattern to people of malevolent outside forces (the "us and them" mentality) and instruct them to induce unnecessary suffering.
- Corollary: People sometimes refuse to accept a more measured understanding of a complex issue out of a desire to divide the world up in simple terms.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Dealing with themselves
Many people find themselves difficult to explain. This is because much human activity is in fact irrational, but operates on a murkier and less logical level, mainly related to a cause-and-effect reaction the brain expects. Sometimes people angst over this quite a bit but really this aspect of human nature is nothing to worry about since it is one of the easiest things to predict. It is when people operate with a clear, conscious goal in mind that they become less predictable and more independent.
Reaction to control
Of all the animals people are by far the most difficult to control, and next to sociopathic tendencies this is the single most cussed thing about human nature. However, it often has celebrated results and is thus held with honor by many civilized nations, even though rebellion is usually "counterproductive".
Even when the basic rules of human nature are taken into account people will look for those patterns and consciously work to break free from them. This impulse means that it is quite impossible to impose a system on people if they are uninterested in accepting it.
However, if people find that control makes their lives on average more comfortable and easier, they will willingly accept outside control and conform themselves to it.
Reaction to pain
People want to avoid pain and seek comfort or peace whereever possible. This is generally not pursued in a rational way. See tanha.