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Can a person be born evil ?

No, but they can be made evil.
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I agree cinders, I think we are all born sweet and innocent but environment and influences help form our personality.
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Babies have cellular memory and if a baby is frightened or smacked / hurt even when new born , it seems the cellular memory can come out as they grow . I think genetics play a part and depending on childhood and family life . Mental health must play a part also .

I do know of someone who is completely unemotional a strange cold man , yet he thinks he is an ok person and completely normal .
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16-05-2017, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by susan m ->
Babies have cellular memory and if a baby is frightened or smacked / hurt even when new born , it seems the cellular memory can come out as they grow . I think genetics play a part and depending on childhood and family life . Mental health must play a part also .

I do know of someone who is completely unemotional a strange cold man , yet he thinks he is an ok person and completely normal .
But couldn't this be that he's on the autism spectrum?
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16-05-2017, 06:16 PM
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Hi

There were identical twin boys in Shrewsbury.

One was quite normal, the other turned into a nasty criminal.

Quite strange.
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16-05-2017, 06:16 PM
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What we forget, is that if two of us had been brought up with identical upbringings, we would still have different personalities.
If those 2 had both received the same smacks as children, with the same words of telling off... both would put a different interpretation in their punishment.
Some would think I deserved that.
Some would think I hate the person who smacked me.
Some would feel persecuted and that could lead to many different actions.
You are born with a brain that isn't identical to any other ( except maybe in identical twins) so each of us is capable of being born evil...... it is just the events of life that decide how evil we become!
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Re: Can a person be born evil ?

The writings of de Sade are cited in the Brady details...of course this is where the word sadism is derived from. I've never read his stuff, it doesn't interest me, but is it very violent and cruel?
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16-05-2017, 07:47 PM
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Re: Can a person be born evil ?

Originally Posted by susan m ->
Babies have cellular memory and if a baby is frightened or smacked / hurt even when new born , it seems the cellular memory can come out as they grow . I think genetics play a part and depending on childhood and family life . Mental health must play a part also .

I do know of someone who is completely unemotional a strange cold man , yet he thinks he is an ok person and completely normal .
Isn't this theory speculative?
Many medical people dont believe in this theory or, so I thought.

Happy to be proven wrong.
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16-05-2017, 07:59 PM
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A psychopath meeting a psychopath?
Interesting concept, which will hopefully be explained by one of the people on here who studied psychology.
In a book about murderers I read a while back, the name of which escapes me, the author stated that there could be two random people who live normal day to day lives and should they happen to meet by some chance they both turn evil, one feeding off the other. Bonny and Clyde, Brady and Hindley and Fred & Rose West are cited as examples.
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16-05-2017, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Cinderella ->
Can a person be born evil ?

No, but they can be made evil.
I suppose that like some born with Autism or Asperger's syndrome due to some `glitch` in their foetal development it's quite possible to be born with some other condition that makes them detached from `normal` social interactions. Could psychopaths be thought of as evil because they lack empathy and have a detachment from society?
 
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