Evil

I do not think that people are born evil. And i am not saying that because i have some optomistic transcendentalist view of the world, I simple don't think anyone is born anything. I believe personality is purely based on past experience. Anyone that is evil is that way because of the way they were raised and what they experienced. And yes, there are people that are evil, Anyone that argues that people like my mom are just "doing bad things but they are good people" are full of themselves ( i was joking about my mom, i just couldn't think of anyone that wasn't cliche on the spot so i used the typical teen response). One might argue that if evil is only based on past experience then why don't two people that have the same experience, like child abuse or something, both commit an evil action? The answer is that the one that didn't most likely had other past experiences that taught them not to commit the action. So evil is based on the whole life experience, the whole combination of experiences if you will. I believe everyone is partially evil just like everyone has been exposed to some negative experiences. Of course some are more than others but like the saying goes, everyone has their dirty laundry.