I used to believe this. Then one day my husband and I were hiking at Squaxin Park (then Priest Point Park), and we met a family that changed my mind. The parents seemed nice and normal, if a bit exhausted. They had two little boys under age six. One was very shy, I would almost say cowed. The other, maybe five, came up to us and started to talk about very negative things. I asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up. He said, very seriously and somberly, “I want to kill everybody in the whole world.” He wasn’t doing it for effect, he meant it. You could tell by his eyes. His parents were quietly apologetic but seemed crushed by him and didn’t say much. It shook us up so much that, on our hike out, we stopped and had a long talk about the nature of evil. Ever since, I believe there are a few inherently “bad seeds,” born that way, just not too many (I hope). They inspire the vulnerable, who’ve just been mistreated or abused, to join armies or revolutions or massacres and spread hate and destruction through the world.
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