22/05/2026
ARE MOST PEOPLE VIRTUOUS?
Is that so? What would you yourself answer right now…?
A question that has been raised as a proposition and book title (Most people are virtuous) in a book by fellow-countryman Rutger Bregman (translated to another title as: Humankind: A Hopeful History).
And what would I say in all honesty? This question puzzeled me.
For in recent years, it seems that society—and thus we as individuals collectively—are treating one another in a somewhat grimmer, more polarizing, more radical, more aggressive, and more divided manner. Here are new perspectives that shed a different light on this question, with a heartwarming invitation to each of us: https://martinthoolen.com/en/de-meeste-mensen-deugen/
© 2026: Martin Thoolen