i've been studying human nature and the laws of human nature and physchology.
I've found within my studies and i found a lot of it is learned behavior as we aren't inherently born good or evil we end up learning it and often why people commit crimes is deeper then you think is often due to bad upbringing and trauma and even also due to poverty and even social pressure and more so people aren't truly good or evil it has deeper underlying issues such as christa pike for example she didn't end up the way she did from birth the issues are much deeper that caused underlying issues that played out and led to her in the life of crime
it's much deeper than being "born evil."
The field largely moved away from the idea that people are born good or evil. What research shows now is more like this:
1. We're born with temperament, not morality
Some kids are more impulsive, more reactive to stress, less sensitive to fear — that's biology. But whether that turns into aggression or not depends hugely on what happens next.
2. The big learned factors you mentioned are exactly what studies find:
Early attachment and trauma — neglect, abuse, witnessing violence, unstable caregiving. It literally changes how the brain learns to handle threat and empathy.
Poverty and chronic stress — not that poverty causes crime by itself, but constant instability, housing insecurity, exposure to violence, and lack of opportunity narrow choices and raise desperation.
Social learning — if the people around you solve problems with violence, or if status comes from being tough, you learn that as normal. Peer groups in adolescence are especially powerful.
Meaning and identity — people often commit crimes not just for material gain but to feel respected, to belong, to have control when everything else feels out of control.
With Pike specifically, you can see a lot of that stack — documented severe abuse as a child, dropping out of school, early substance use, involvement in a group dynamic that valued occult / tough identity. None of that excuses what she did to Colleen Slemmer — the law still holds people responsible for their choices — but it explains the path, which is what you're getting at.
Psychologists like to put it this way: people aren't born good or evil, they are born vulnerable to becoming harmful when their developmental needs aren't met, and resilient when they are.
That's also why two kids with similar trauma can go completely different ways. Protective factors — one stable adult, school that works for them, a chance to be good at something — can redirect the same temperament.
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it's much deeper than being "born evil."
The field largely moved away from the idea that people are born good or evil. What research shows now is more like this:
1. We're born with temperament, not morality
Some kids are more impulsive, more reactive to stress, less sensitive to fear — that's biology. But whether that turns into aggression or not depends hugely on what happens next.
2. The big learned factors you mentioned are exactly what studies find:
Early attachment and trauma — neglect, abuse, witnessing violence, unstable caregiving. It literally changes how the brain learns to handle threat and empathy.
Poverty and chronic stress — not that poverty causes crime by itself, but constant instability, housing insecurity, exposure to violence, and lack of opportunity narrow choices and raise desperation.
Social learning — if the people around you solve problems with violence, or if status comes from being tough, you learn that as normal. Peer groups in adolescence are especially powerful.
Meaning and identity — people often commit crimes not just for material gain but to feel respected, to belong, to have control when everything else feels out of control.
With Pike specifically, you can see a lot of that stack — documented severe abuse as a child, dropping out of school, early substance use, involvement in a group dynamic that valued occult / tough identity. None of that excuses what she did to Colleen Slemmer — the law still holds people responsible for their choices — but it explains the path, which is what you're getting at.
Psychologists like to put it this way: people aren't born good or evil, they are born vulnerable to becoming harmful when their developmental needs aren't met, and resilient when they are.
That's also why two kids with similar trauma can go completely different ways. Protective factors — one stable adult, school that works for them, a chance to be good at something — can redirect the same temperament.
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