Philosophically, I believe humans are fundamentally good. Honestly, anything darker than "people are good" and "people just kinda exists" goes into some philosophical clone-shoes BS. I do not care to be that judgemental of people as a philosophical baseline, and believing humans are innately bad or whatever leads to fash-y nonsense. People are good because the humane is good. It just makes sense.
However, on a personal level, I do not like people. People have hurt me through my entire life. I can deal with human society (I wouldn't still be alive if I couldn't) but I do not trust others to get me, care for me, etc etc. This is based on personal experience. If my parents were unable to love me, (which is their literal fucking job as parents, and the only people in this modern society that are supposed to owe me any kind of love) I do not expect much of anything for other people.
I don't really have a problem holding these seemingly contradictory viewpoints. I'm a complicated creature, and am allowed to think multiple ways about something.
If I really try to rectify them with one another, I can say I believe that modern society marginalizes certain kinds of people and ignores most of the human condition. I think its pretty easy to say, as a leftist, that neoliberalism, late capitalism, and some strain of christo-fascism has simultaneously isolated people and demonized isolated people.
I think this marriage of ideas is why certain kinds of stories and themes appeal to me. "Humanoid non-humans care for marginalized humans better than humans do." Things like that just make sense for me. People are fallen, not in the christian purity sense. People are fallen, in the "we took christian purity to its logical extreme" sense. The inefficient, illogical, and un-industrious has been rejected on a physical, economic, spiritual, and philosophical level. People whose value cannot be measured, sold, or moralized have no one to turn to in our modern society- These kind of themes resonate with me.