Why, any good liberal knows that man is basically good. That is, after all, how we can achieve utopia through social evolution. It's important that we don't acknowledge evil...but where it exists, we make up an excuse having to do with environmental factors, or we blame it on a wrong-headed notion of what constitutes evil to begin with.
Got it? If not, you will require re-education immediately.
Why, any good liberal knows that man is basically good.IIRC, that's classical liberalism which is similar to conservatism today. I think it's more the liberal view that man can't be trusted individually and therefore government, or the collective, must rein him in.
achieve utopia through social evolution
Yep, utopianism is a leftist trap, dunno where that fits in.