Humanity’s Sinfulness & a Toll Experiment

There’s a somewhat naïve belief among some that, in general, most people are inherently good. While many Christians may not fully embrace John Calvin’s doctrine of total depravity (which I believe is often misunderstood), most of us understand that the stain of sin prevents us from consistently being “good people.” Interestingly, an experiment conducted in the summer of 1970 provides support for the argument that people are not as good as we might like to think, particularly when no one is watching.

In Delaware, an…