Milgrams study, if you look past his manipulation of the data, apparently contains somewhat of an answer. He left out a few important features, the worst being that half of the participants actually knew it was staged. If we eliminate those, we have promising numbers.
In the 60s, 66% of people would do evil if ordered to do so. If we ignore the manipulation of the data, it actually turns out that 33% of people stood up to authority in order to not do evil.
Numerous replications of the experiment have occurred, almost exactly producing Milgram's results while being unaware of the manipulation. I interpret this to mean that more people are good than they want us to believe, otherwise there would be no need to manipulate the data and keep repeating fake results.
Let's say approximately 33% of people are good, for now. I wasn't expecting to find that.
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