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Originally Posted by kestrelx
It's not about being pre-programmed to be evil. People who do violence to others and enjoy it do so, in many cases, because their brains don't produce the chemicals that normal people have that makes them see someone is suffering and try to help that person, or stop what they are doing to inflict that pain. Surely the cause of this is genetic and is genetically inherant!? If you don't have the chemicals in the brain it's nothing to do with choice, it's they way you were born.
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Fear I keep repeating myself, but I don't think anyone's born evil.
I definitely come down on the nurture, rather than nature side of the argument.
If Rose West hadn't been sexually molested by both her her father and grandfather in a violent home, and had never met Fred West, would she still have become a sadistic serial killer?
I doubt it.
She had siblings, raised in a similar environment, who didn't become murderers. What made them different?
I don't know.
Everyone reacts differently to the environment and circumstances that surround them.
Some manage to survive. Others can't.