Timeless debate..

Is a person's character or inherent morality the principle driver behind their actions or is it the constraint of external regulations / consequences?

The development of the ideas of Thomas Hobbes took this to its conclusion of laws protecting us from a / our state of nature or John Locke theory of government by consent and rule of law.

Where do good people sit in all this? At the mercy of the bad… who often seem to make the laws these days…