Thank you for sharing, Gumby.
The plain truth is there are children born and raised in the most abusive and even evil of familes who turn out not to be evil or abusive people. The reverse is also true: children born in the most loving and nurturing of families turn out to evil.
This is a complex subject, and that is why I brought it up. I read a piece written by so-called "experts" on the subject that concluded that if Hitler had been born in this generation, with the medications and treatments we have today, he would have never been the "Hitler" that we all know and despise. Of course, this is conjecture, but these so-called "experts" assert that his particular form of mental illness is not difficult to treat.
Of course, there are many (off topic) variants to this: if man is born with bad inclinations and God is theistic, then it must logically follow that God made it so. Thus, a theistic God is evil by making it nearly hopeless for man, or cynical because he made it harder than it should be to please such a "loving Creator(tm)." If man is born with bad inclinations and God is deistic, then one must wonder why this type of God (who doesn't give a rat) would make that way in the first place. This type of a good is even more cynical than a theistic God.
God aside, though, what do the FACTS show about whether people are born good or evil.
If people are born good and they have evil parents who turn them into evil people, and those evil parents were also of the set that was born good, then what happened to their parents? Or their grandparents? Ad infinitum. If all people were born good, then how could people have evil parents?
If true, what caused their parents to become evil, if they lived among the rest of the people who were also born good.
The reverse is true, too. What causes the majority of people to be good, if they (and their parents and everyone else) were born with an inclination to be bad?
My head hurts.....
Farkel