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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My personal belief is that "evil" is born of trauma. Not excusing evil acts but making sense of them. Sometimes it's an idea you can follow such as ... kid grew up being deprived and abused in multiple ways, grows up to be impulsive and angry, commits escalating crimes from thefts to carjackings, for example. It's not an excuse but you can see how it happened.

This one, we have no template for it. She's not like any other abuser I ever read about.  [/quote]

Lots and lots of evil people come from great homes with no trauma. The columbine murderers, Bernie Madoff, Sam Bankman fried, that guy who murdered a family in Connecticut (but not before raping a daughter-- maybe 10 or 11-- in front of the mom).

Most people who grew up with trauma do not go on to commit crimes.

I don't believe trauma is an excuse at all. And I grew up with trauma. It doesn't make you do anything. If anything, it makes it clear why you shouldn't.  [/quote]

I have said , emphatically, that I do not believe it is an excuse. You don't know what happened to Columbine murderers, Madoff, or the others. If the trauma was not in the childhood, could have been in their genes. Generational trauma. And if it wasn't by their parents, it was by people in their parents community. Why do people resist the idea of trauma? Trauma is part of a pattern. It excuses no one. It does explain how we all need not to hurt one another, though.

Psychopaths/sociopaths might be different, but I bet it's rooted in trauma. Psychopathy makes changes you can see in the brain. A child is born like that, sins of previous ancestors visited upon the child, who  if growing up with no empathy and love, will definitely make ruin for others. There is a story about a law abiding doctor who found out his brain images look the same as dangerous psychopaths, and he believes he himself is a psychopath but just raised particularly well, so he's productive/ noncriminal despite it.

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