Do you belive anyone is born bad?

Question

Do you think people can be born bad or evil?

Answer 1

No hun! Kids are the most innocent of beings and unassuming. Its the environment they are born to that taints them.

Answer 2

I think most people are born innocent, in other words were not born prejudice, were taught it. There are also people who are born with a mental problem from birth, I don't know if it is an evil problem. I would think that most of our serial killers have had some kind of abuse in their lives and that was the result.

Maybe it's a gene or something like that. I guess they would have done studies on this.

Just my thoughts.

Take care

Answer 3

I think some people are born mentally unstable and lack a conciounce or the ability to feel empathy for other people.  This rare group ends up being serial murderors and rapists.  I would say they are born flawed, not bad.

Answer 4

No you are not born bad. There is no special gene for rebels

Answer 5

"Bad," in children or adults, is a cultural designation connoting negative or unwanted behavior. Children under about age 8 have no real moral sense (that part of their brain not having developed yet) so we really can't talk about "MISbehavior," just "behavior." (When a child MISbehaves, that means some adult doesn't like what he's doing, that's all!)

I agree with you, and I'm sorry for the children who have a person working with them (your co-worker who believes in the "bad seed child") who believes they or their sister or cousin or whatever is "born" bad/evil/nasty.

All that stuff is learned in the family, which represents the human community at the beginning of a person's life.

You would profit from reading some of the writings by Alfred Adler and Rudolph Dreikers on psychology, childhood education, and why children behave as they do. Throughout North America we have preschools and guidance centers devoted specifically to an Adlerian approach to early childhood education.

--  Dr. Bob, Adlerian Psychologist

Answer 6

DEFINITELY!

I believe in reincarnation, and have most of my life.  There is too much evidence in its favor and it just makes too much sense to discount it any more.  Outside the Judeo-Christian influences of our western society, most other philosophies believe in at least some variation on it.

It could even be found among the beliefs of some of the American Indian tribes.  (There was one tribe where one of the requirements for becoming the tribal shaman was to be able to remember one's last 10 deaths!)

You might be surprised to know that the early Christians believed in reincarnation.  Somewhere in the New testament - I don't remember where - someone asks Jesus if he is the prophet Elijah come back.  He responds with something like "No - that is John the baptist".

Such a question COULD NOT have been asked, and Jesus COULD NOT have answered it as he did, if that culture did not include an ingrained belief in reincarnation!

The concept of reincarnation was removed from the early Christian doctrines by the Council of Nicea because the church could not exert as much power and strict control over those who believed in karmic rebirth and multiple opportunities for spiritual redemption.

It is a common misconception - even among many philosophies that DO accept the reality of reincarnation - that we start each new life as a blank canvas - with the proverbial "clean slate".  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In actuality, we are the sum total ov EVERYONE we have EVER been!  The memories that are NOT present in our conscious mind, ARE present in our sub-conscious, and, unbeknownst to us, they influence just about every facet of our current day-to-day lives.

The environment can do NOTHING MORE THAN feed in data via the 5 senses - what we see, what we hear, feel, taste and smell.  There is something alread there, inside of our minds, that determines which of that data we accept, which of it we reject and how we handle and process that part of it we DO accept.  That "something" is our basic personality and it is the sum total of everyone we have ever been and every experience we have ever had throughout all our lives.

It is why different people from similar environments develop into such a diverse collection of personalities.  It is why we get both saints and human monsters - as well as every gradient in between - from virtually any and every walk of life.

If you work with children, I cannot believe you have not noticed the drastic diversity of personalities they exhibit - even at ages where logic alone says they would not yet have had time to develop diverse personalities.

Have you never encountered a child who was just plain mean and hurtful to others from the very start?  I DON'T work with children, but I have observed examples of early childhood sociopathy.

So YES, some people ARE "born bad".  But there are also people who are "born good" and there are people who are born into any and every conceivable mixture of morally qualitative polarities in between.