Is evil born or cultivated?

Is evil born or cultivated?

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Technically neither, I think.

We are not born evil, but fallen and corrupted. If we were born evil there would be no hope for any potential goodness on our part. Our fallen nature makes it easy to commit evil works but I wouldn't even say it's "cultivated" in the sense that you can work on being evil, since Adam and Eve weren't given an evil cradling, but they nonetheless sinned. Maybe that's just not the right word to use.
It's like with St Augustine when he talks about how he and some fellow kids raided a neighbours orchard one night and stole loads of pears, not because they were hungry or because they wanted to hurt the guy, but just because it was wrong and doing wrong is "fun".

Considering that trashy book has a section where a little boy springs a boner over his half-brother being given mouth to mouth I'm going to have to say evil is written down on the page and made a bestseller

Is a tree?

Both? Sociopaths seem evil from birth, but they are a minority. For most people becoming evil is a slow process.

I want to doubt the credibility of that statement but honestly as time goes on I am getting less and less surprised.

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People can be born with a predisposition to sociopathy but sociopaths are made, not born.

Do you have evidence to support that?

Wicked is an absolutely disgusting book and is proof of the idea that seeing what the lustful thinks are sexy would put you off sex. There's an bit where the author takes far too long describing the breasts of an elephant woman.

Evil does not technically exist for it is the absence of good like darkness is the absence of light.