All people are love. All people have love in their hearts. All people respond and act according to love. Rousseau describes the natural state of man as being a place wherein individuals aim to respond with happiness and gratitude toward other people's blessings, that is, they respond with happiness and gratitude when others do well; that is the instinctual and experientially-learned reality of all people, as it is inscribed on our very human genes from an ancient past and in the homo sapien complexion, according to Rousseau-- being happy and grateful when others do well. Moreover, we want to give. We want to be giving helpful people. We have a natural ethos of charity. We are happy when other people are happy and free. by Ben Bussewitz MM