This is so interesting and everyone seems to have really been thinking about the subject. As dubs we believed good was following god and evil followed satan. But when a person is born I'd say culturally they are tabula rasa. That does not include though the most important instinct which is to survive. As infants we demand to be fed when we're hungry. We demand to be made comfortable. And if the foods not right we puke. Our cries as infants are meant to attract Mom to care for us. So survival isn't evil or good in the devil/god sense. Fortunately for us we did our best to get the food and attention we needed to be safe enough to grow up and provide for ourselves. But then there are those who do not develope a conscience. They have no fellow feeling. I think that their survival techniques did not work out so well, so that from infancy they were damaged goods. So does that make them evil? I don't think so. They have another way to survive albeit often violent. I'm thinking about the Ted Bundy's or Saddam Hussein's of the world. Violence against humans is all about empowering themselves. One thing for sure that without the proper nurture our natures go seriously awry.But then we get into the good/bad of the demented actions. And that begs us to ask, what would be the effect on the torture/murder victims. Definitely bad right? IMO giving someone the handle of Evil-doer is setting them on some supernatural level. Like evil is too hard to overcome. And it is ,if you plan to rehabilitate the BundyHussein, but if you just kill him then that supra evil is easily overcome.Then the next question --- well you know...Panda