On the inborn human nature - Lord of the flies

One of the themes of the novel, ‘Lord of the flies’ is that human’s inherent nature is savage and cruel. Therefore, Golding appears to say that our civilized society is highly prone to break into conflicts or wars, and that these conflicts or war do not result from a defect in the system but from inherent flaws in man.

In China, there have been two opposite view points on the fundamental human nature. The one is that human’s nature is inherently good, which is due to Mengja. The other is due to Soonja who believed that human’s inherent nature is bad. Both philosophers lived around BC 200. On the other hand, Hindu view point in India around BC 2000 is that the distinction of good and bad is not universal, but is arbitrary and relative. Suppose that there lives a bacterium in our stomach, but that a new bacterium ‘invades’ into the stomach and killed the first bacterium to monopolize the 'food' in our stomach. Should we feel sorry or sympathetic to the first killed bacterium in our stomach?

I feel that Mengja’s view is naïve and not quite correct. It is likely that Soonja’s (or Golding’s) or even Hindu view points are closer to the truth. Although I am not completely sure, Golding might have some of Hindu view points too, when he says that the dead bodies of Simon and Piggy are cleaned away by the enormous natural power of the sea, as I mentioned in my another blog.