Philosophy

Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece? - Coldplay, talk

In a confused state here are my thoughts …
"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided." (Locke.)
“Man is essentially good, a "noble savage" when in the "state of nature" and good people are made unhappy and corrupted by their experiences in society.” Society is "artificial" and "corrupt" and that the furthering of society results in the continuing unhappiness of man. (Rousseau)
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Man is made both good and evil, corrupted or corrected by a society formed by these ‘men’ who create a capitalistic society full of laws, rules and regulation, as a way to control and to keep man good and ‘normal’ as part of the social contract yet we have the right to control these circumstances within our society through the choices we make.
I would like to say I agree with both sides because we live in a society full of good and evil with rules and regulations. It is within this society that we sit quietly enjoying the comfort of being like or the same as everybody else however we loose the opportunity to be individuals but reduce the risk of tyranny. Having never tried living without society I can’t say which I prefer or that I understand. It is commonly said that money is the root of all evil and perhaps there is truth to that statement. Natives lived in relative peace trading in things they needed for thousands of years prior to modern ‘settlement’.
So perhaps the question shouldn't be, man good or evil but perhaps, the society in which man exists, good or evil?