Do you think some people are just born evil?

HeySal

12 years ago

I think so, too. Some people are just truly evil people. I have known a few.

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MissTerraK 12 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I think so, too. Some people are just truly evil people. I have known a few.

As have I, but I don't think that people are born evil, although it would seem so at times.

I've seen little toddlers who are evil little beasts and think to myself, man, if this behavior isn't tackled, addressed and corrected, we're going to have a criminal running rampant here.

I'm not talking the typical terrible twos either. I mean their actions are thought out maliciousness and you can just see their evil thoughts play out on their faces before they act.

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Patrician

12 years ago

I think some people are born with bad brain chemistry and 'disconnects' in their neurological systems.

Being evil is mostly something people choose however. We each have the capacity to go either way.

With that said, it does say in the Bible that devils are devils as soon as they are born (in so many words) - so maybe there are some 'demon seeds'.

Then of course environment/abuse, etc can also contribute to 'evil' people being evil. The victim becomes the oppressor unless he/she uses their common sense and have a conscience that is stronger than their impulses.

I know we always thought my niece was evil because she was violent even at 6 months old - (and her father was a prick) - turns out she had epilepsy and these were pre-seizures. Took quite a few years for it to be diagnosed and in the meantime she was kicked out of schools, etc.

So you have to be careful how you judge people...

(with that said if they seriously hurt anybody for whatever reason, they need to be put away or sent out of here). No excuse.

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thunderbird

12 years ago

I also believe that some people are born evil. Some stupid people are evil, some highly intelligent people are evil. That boy in the picture was a stupid evil person. Someone such as serial killer Ted Bundy would be an intelligent evil person.

That said, I don't believe that most people are "good". Most people are nebulous and go with the flow and pursue whatever interests them without looking at the bigger picture. If most people were good, a majority of Germans would have opposed Hitler. Hitler was a highly intelligent evil person. Frankly, there is some evil going on today -- suppressed by the mainstream media -- that I won't even mention since it wouldn't help anybody or do me any good and could even bring trouble to me and my family.

Monsanto is an evil entity run by highly intelligent evil people, as are so many of the so-called "health insurance" providers in the US. Highly intelligent people can find ways to exercise their evil nature while not only escaping punishment but getting rewarded for it, eg whoever was responsible for the School of the Americas, school of brutal assassins committing heinous crimes comparable to that committed by Luka Magnotta or Charles Manson and his gang, but on a mass scale.

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olavlind

12 years ago

Nope. All evilness and negative stuff is learned. It is learned behavior. The subconscious mind is a sucker for picking up signals and put together a meaning from it. Not necessarily correct all the time as the learning is based on earlier experiences.

It is just trying to protect us. And some people have very strange ideas about what protection should look like and feel like...

Learning does however begin before we get born though...

~Olav

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HeySal

12 years ago

Originally Posted by olavlind

Learning does however begin before we get born though...

~Olav

Um......so if evil is learned before birth..........would that not mean the person is born evil?

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thunderbird

12 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Um......so if evil is learned before birth..........would that not mean the person is born evil?

I wonder if toxins such as pesticides and plastics, antibiotic and growth hormone laden meat, and GMS foods eaten by pregnant women could be warping babies and producing more evil people.

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HeySal

12 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

I wonder if toxins such as pesticides and plastics, antibiotic and growth hormone laden meat, and GMS foods eaten by pregnant women could be warping babies and producing more evil people.

I'm pretty sure that they are. Don't know what people do not understand about the word "poison".

Women that slathered themselves with toxic sunscreens and ended up with Vit D deficiencies kid's are paying for that one in many ways - including being called immoral for being born gender confused.

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focused

12 years ago

Originally Posted by olavlind

Nope. All evilness and negative stuff is learned. It is learned behavior. The subconscious mind is a sucker for picking up signals and put together a meaning from it. Not necessarily correct all the time as the learning is based on earlier experiences.

It is just trying to protect us. And some people have very strange ideas about what protection should look like and feel like...

Learning does however begin before we get born though...

~Olav

Some people are born with a genetic makeup that
disposes them to become exhibit greater evil than the
"normal" or "average" person would.
How these sociopaths develop and the traits they
ultimately exhibit depends on their upbringing and their
life experiences.
A person with a sociopathic makeup or predisposition can
actually become very successful in business or the military
which can allow them to be very goal driven and effective
while wearing the outward mask of a normally functioning
and caring individual.
However, these individuals who lack empathy to varying
degrees can exhibit very abusive and cruel behaviors if
they are exposed to abusive environments themselves,
especially when young.

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seasoned

12 years ago

Unfortunately, I feel some MUST be born evil. How else do you explain those that are practically born bullies and spend their whole life harrassing and perhaps trying to rule areas where they do nothing more than make everyone miserable for no reason.

Not to be religious, but people think adam ate of the tree of knowledge. They need to read farther. It was the tree of knowledge OF GOOD AND EVIL. If one had no inate desire, you would figure that they would simply do what they can to survive or be more comfortable. MOST animals seem to always do things that seem bad for a PURPOSE! A bear will attack people for food or fear, for example.

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