Charlie Kirk on the Most Important Question in Politics: Are People Inherently Good?

[00:00] the most important question in politics

[00:02] in general that I think it just comes to

[00:03] the very core which will immediately

[00:05] separate half this room maybe half this

[00:06] room I don't know uh half the people

[00:08] here and have not and it's it's very

[00:09] simple are people good are are people

[00:12] inherently good this is a fundamental

[00:14] question for politics and philosophy and

[00:16] the question is of course people aren't

[00:18] good what are you kidding me we have to

[00:19] teach goodness to our infants we have to

[00:22] tell our babies to stop crying we have

[00:24] to tell our three-year-olds to stop

[00:26] hitting each other in our normative

[00:28] Natural State we're broken by the way

[00:30] people who think people are if you think

[00:31] people are inherently good that'll IM

[00:33] immediately put you in a camp a lot

[00:35] different than uh where a conservative

[00:37] worldview will come from are people

[00:39] perfect it's a very important question

[00:41] do you believe the Human Condition can

[00:43] be perfected do you think with the right

[00:45] influences governmental or

[00:47] non-governmental that we can actually

[00:48] come to a place where Human Action can

[00:50] be perfected where the greed and the

[00:52] racism and the sexism can eventually be

[00:54] completely removed from our society if

[00:56] you do don't believe people are bad and

[00:58] you believe people are not perable then

[01:01] a and a a reasonable goal would be then

[01:03] we should try to make people better

[01:05] right that we should try to at least get

[01:06] them as close to Perfection as possible

[01:08] here's the killer question should

[01:10] government do it that's the question I

[01:12] say absolutely not I say government has

[01:15] no place in socially engineering its

[01:17] citizens government's role is to make

[01:19] sure that government doesn't first and

[01:20] foremost come after us because the

[01:22] number one abuser of human freedom in

[01:25] the history of the world it's not

[01:27] capitalists not the Millionaires and

[01:28] billionaires it's government it's it's

[01:30] government make no mistake it's

[01:32] government our Founders understood this

[01:35] our Founders understood this and it's

[01:38] what what has preserved most of Western

[01:40] culture is that there are checks and

[01:42] balances against bad people because as I

[01:44] said earlier people are inherently bad

[01:47] getting too much power to exert it over

[01:49] other people that's why we have

[01:50] separation Powers so if you do believe

[01:53] people are bad and you think being you

[01:54] should try to perfect individuals but

[01:56] you don't think government should do it

[01:58] but let's pretend you say actually no

[01:59] Charlie I think government should do it

[02:01] I think things are good when we come

[02:02] together and I believe in a collective

[02:04] let's play that out well then here's the

[02:05] next question do you really trust the

[02:07] government come on you can't possibly

[02:09] trust this government remember

[02:11] government is just comprised of people

[02:13] government does not inherently become

[02:14] good because you have a bunch of people

[02:16] in a room and you slap a sticker on it

[02:18] right it's still broken people that are

[02:20] imperfect in a room that will use

[02:23] unlimited power against the Citizens