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Originally Posted by Livia
Yeah, I'll go with most of that. Find out what makes him tick, maybe it'll help people in the future. But never, ever let him out. I do disagree about people being born evil. I think some people are, not because they're bad for the sake of it, but because there're a couple of synapses that aren't firing in the same way everyone else's are.
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There are definitely people who are born with a predisposition to sociopathy / psychopathy but that's not the same as "evil", and if it's caught early enough then those people are far less likely to ever be dangerous or hurt anyone. Just as with what Cherie was saying - not everyone who endures trauma becomes dangerous or a killer, in fact most people do not. The "perfect storm" comes when someone who is predisposed to those issues AND has it "activated" by circumstance... which is part of what makes it so important to identify early and intervene. I have absolutely no doubt that Venables was born with psychological differences to most people, but I also think it's likely that he may never have actually physically harmed anyone if he had been born under different circumstances.