...and that is the entire divide, are people inherently good or bad (before they get outside influence)?
I didn’t need a bible for that answer, all I did was read Lord of the Flies.
And even the Left, who think that people are inherently good (hence reform them, rather than jail them - why do you think we have ‘correctional institutions’, after all), but they of course do not quite think that when it comes to political opponents - they think we’re simply EVIL and need to be disposed of, as the 20th Century proved.
That is impossible to answer, since a human baby will not live more than a few days without outside influence.
No species is more dependent on outside influence than a human, nor for a longer period of time.
We are products of outside influence.
Humans are inherently greedy and selfish.
Just observe any newborn, but it is part of self preservation.