I'm just toying with words here, to illustrate how they shape our understanding. You made the comment that most people are good, otherwise we'd be extinct by now. We are in a mass extinction event right now of our own making. Wildlife populations around the world are in sharp decline. Trees around the world are dying and burning.  California saw more than 66 million trees die in the Sierra Nevadas in five years from drought, climate disruption and bark beetles. We are facing our own extinction.

Considering this, would this statement also be true? 'If most people were good, we wouldn't be facing extinction right now.'   

Which perspective addresses the human destruction that is at the base of nearly all our woes, economic, environmental and social, and which one limits our ability to understand our destruction meaningfully?

Maybe a more meaningful judgment would be: all people are animals. That is not an insult. It's biology. That would be a far more realistic way to see ourselves.