"Każdy człowiek jest dobry."
Translation:Every human is good.
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If this is true it just means that the concept of good is meaningless. If there is no example of a bad person, what significance can you attach to good?
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I don't think the absence of an opposite indicates the concept is meaningless. The meaninglessness would depend on the purpose of the concept, not on numbers...
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I agree with everyone who posted so far. This statement is worse than nonsense. How about a more truthful statement like "Most people are average." At least that's statistically correct and in line with the bell curve.
All people are inherently good, some consistently or habitually use their free will to make bad choices. Each person, simply by being human, has a natural dignity that cannot be taken away.
Okay, I guess it works here, added.
May I recommend taking a look here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/19428542 if you are interested in differences between English and Polish in using the words for 'human' and 'person'.
Direct translation for that is "Każdy jest dobry", without "człowiek". (but then, "everyone" always refers to humans, at least right now when there are no aliens or super intelligent animals around, so perhaps everyone should be accepted)
How about "every person is born good" for a more truthful sentence.. Or "every person here is good"
That would be "Kazdy człowiek rodzi się dobrym" (rodzić = to born) or "Każda osoba tutaj jest dobra" (person = osoba, here = tutaj).
Yes, "dobre" should preferably be rejected (because it's another existing form, so it's quite likely that someone consciously used it thinking it's the correct one), or at least marked as a typo.
Well... "single" is an addition, and I don't recall anyone ever suggesting a similar translation for "każdy". We could say "Każdy jeden człowiek" for a Polish equivalent.
Hm.. thanks for this commetnt about Polish: it was interesting. For the expression every single person in russian каждый первый человек or каждый один человек would sound very unnatural. But it is possible to translate as каждый отдельный человек (każda indywidualna osoba). And both services (google.translate and yandex.translate) show every single person from English into Polish as if just każda osoba
While google translates pretty fine between English, French, and Spanish, you should be really wary before you rely on its translation into Polish. (I do not know about yandex, I never use that.)
I agree. It is obvious. But sometimes it happens that these services translate differently
We thought about it some more and decided that "every single person" is a way more likely thing to say in English than "każdy jeden człowiek" in Polish, therefore it probably won't hurt to accept it. Added now.