Is anyone born evil?

Question

Everyone was someones bundle of joy at one point. Even Hitler and Saddam Insane. Whats your take?

Answer 1

No. How a person behaves is developed by their environment and people around them after birth.

Answer 2

No, but from the firs minute of a nowborn baby and on, think about it- a baby is totaly dependant and subject to his/her parents or single parent. the question is a bit tricky, what is the nature of that parent/s. there is a certain chain of consecuinces that we pass on from generation to generation, so realy you can go all the way back to adam and eve, but you can also understand this and make a change by cutting the link. one can anayize his/her childhood, then start to understand certain frustrations or an unexplained anger toward the parents/parent even if they seem to the eye - very caring loving children (constinantly need their approval, the fear of loosing grows with one.), if eventually a person understands their parents upbringing that made them like they are, it's much easier to forgive and move on and make a change. the majority of evens in this matter is sad. if a parent was subject to abuse one way or another, it is very hard for them not to pass on to their children the same or a similar kind of upbringing. but it isn't impossible either. idially, a baby/ child should never fear at any point loosing the love of their parents, because they don't have a choice., when they experience that fear, they become what their parents made them, not who they realy are. thus, growing up into adulthood with unexplained anger, split personalitys, confusion, bitterness and so on. in extreme cases, they might become criminals, psychopaths, very troubled people., some of these people are master minds and can in their own briliant manipulative way achieve power (hitler, saddam). believe it or not, if you ever bump in to an "evil" person, you will find that he/she were never counted, aknowledged, loved, informed, guided, trusted, secured. with all that lack how can one ever do or know right from wrong? they are capable of everything bad, evil ect. anything for the attention they never got.

Answer 3

Damien was. And so was our ****** goldfish...burn in hell, baby.

If you believe that people are born good, then why can't they be born evil? Someone here answered that evil is taught; if that's the case, how come good isn't also taught? Why just the one but not the other??

See the logical inconsistency here...you'd have to say that no one was born either good or evil, and that BOTH are learned; or you have to allow that people can be born either way.

Answer 4

Some persons born with neurological defects may have stronger predispositions to engage in what we would call evil.

Specifically, defects on the frontal lobes that would ordinarily censor out antisocial behavior coupled with an environment that is not nurturing is a pretty good recipe for "evil" conduct.

Answer 5

I think we ALL HAVE EVIL TENDENCIES. but of being inantely evil - i think we can somewhat control that, we have the choice to be thorpughly drowned in that corrupt thought or choose something more pure not only for your personal experience but for others as well.

Its a matter of the choice of which PATH TO TAKE. If we ALL are Evil, we have that inner strength to fight and resist that damning perception. Sometimes when you have experienced the path through darkness, the journey through enlightenment may be a bit crucial, but once that youve dedicated your very being through that route, for spiritual maturity for your inner strength and power, the nextime you get back in that road, its not that damning at all...as you know that no matter what, with positivity and that faith you have with yourself, the journey may be rough yet worth every pain to get back to the positive side of your soul.

Your question is very nice.

Answer 6

Humans were born with two sides half good,half evil and the evil side is becoming from selfishness or having a bad childhood or living with suffers or sickness..and many other things.. but all what we have to do is being good as much as we can..

Answer 7

yes and no

we were all born from/with sin ( our parents.)
Yet ourselves did not ever commit sins, we did not know that there existed a wrong from right, dats why i like to look in the eyes of a baby, because it is only there that i can actually see purity from any evil, and no mischievous thoughts, almost as if i look into the eyes of an angel.

Ppl like saddam, or hilter, i believe would neva be evil, if the circumstance s in life they had face and been taught were never introduce to them.....it all depends how they were brought up, or wat they have seen throught there lives.

Answer 8

First, understand that 'evil' and 'good' are value judgements. They are subjective according to culture, place, time and individual. There is no single definition of 'evil' that is true for all peoples. If by evil you mean the desire to inflict harm for no other reason than personal satisfaction, then no. No one is born with that attitude. It has to be learned.

Answer 9

Scientists generally say we are about 80% genetic and 20% environment after studying identical twins separated at birth.

So I suppose some are.
Some people, if not BORN, evil, will have chemical imbalances later that can account for their evil.

Answer 10

Evil is the lack of a good that ought to be present not a state of being. So, the answer is no.